title: Acute suppurative perithyroiditis: MR findings.
abstract: We report the MR findings in two cases of acute suppurative perithyroiditis. MR has the advantages over other imaging modalities of being able to distinguish areas of inflammation from adjacent normal tissue and of allowing imaging in planes which more accurately demonstrate the extent of the lesion. MR imaging is one of the most useful methods to evaluate this entity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 4546 Isurumihara, Beppu 874, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hatakenaka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murayama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hashiguchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zaizen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kusuhara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Masuda
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005402:Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010608:Pharyngeal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013969:Thyroiditis, Suppurative / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology