title: MRI of rectal disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this pictorial essay is to provide a review of the diseases involving the rectal wall with an emphasis on the key clinical and radiologic differentiating features.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A wide spectrum of disease processes can involve the rectum in adults. MRI is the technique of choice in the definitive diagnosis of these disease conditions, mainly because of its superior tissue contrast differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Université Paris-Descartes Faculté de Medecine Cochin Port-Royal, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, 184 Rue du Faubourg, Saint-Antoine 75571, Paris cedex 12, France. christine.hoeffel@sat.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: Christine C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Hoeffel
authors.forename: Louisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Azizi
authors.forename: Najat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mourra
authors.forename: Maïté
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lewin
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Arrivé
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tubiana
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D012002:Rectal Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary