title: Abdominal macronodular tuberculomas: MR findings.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our goal was to determine the appearance of abdominal macronodular tuberculomas on MRI.
  
  
  METHODS
  MR findings of two patients with abdominal macronodular tuberculoma, one of the liver and the other in the kidney, were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The two tuberculomas, histologically confirmed to have no calcification, hemorrhaging, or fibrosis, commonly showed low signal intensity on both T1- and T2-weighted images.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report two cases of a macronodular tuberculoma in the liver and kidney, which is visualized as a region of hypointensity on T2-weighted MR images. This finding appears to be important in reaching a definitive diagnosis of an abdominal tuberculoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sumiya
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shichijo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014386:Tuberculosis, Hepatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014398:Tuberculosis, Renal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology