title: [MRI in the diagnosis of tumors of the shoulder girdle area].
abstract: The aim of the study was to estimate the value of MRI for evaluation tumors of the shoulder girdle. We diagnosed respectively 13 patients with lesions in the shoulder region. The imaging has been done with a "Magnetom SP 63" (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). The protocol consisted of T1- and T2-based SE-sequences in axial slice orientation, T1-based imaging in coronary respectively in sagittal slice orientation as well as T1-based sequences after application of contrast medium. The evaluation of the tumor expansion within the soft tissue was possible. The exact diagnosis in some individual cases--neurinoma, cyst of the synovia--could be found by MRI. Estimation of the dignity in the case of infiltrative growth was possible in most cases. To assess the exact type of tumor was often difficult. Especially the dignity of the cartilaginous tumors could not be precisely described.
authors.affiliation: Strahlenklinik und Poliklinik, Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schlecht
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gaffke
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stroszczynski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Felix
mesh_terms: D000174:Acromion; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D001917:Brachial Plexus; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000556:secondary; D002812:Chondroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D012540:Scapula; D012782:Shoulder; D013581:Synovial Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis