title: Presacral myelolipoma in a patient with rectal cancer: diagnosis by magnetic resonance imaging and aspiration cytology.
abstract: State-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol for the evaluation of rectal cancer suggests only T2-weighted fast spin-echo sequences. We present a case of rectal cancer with a simultaneous presacral myelolipoma that could have been misdiagnosed on MRI as a metastasis if a T1-weighted sequence had not also been used in the evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden. mikael.skorpil@karolinska.se
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Skorpil
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blomqvist
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D018209:Myelolipoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*