title: Sickle cell-related bone marrow complications: the utility of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.
abstract: In sickle cell disease diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) are helpful, costeffective, and promising techniques for differentiating bone marrow involvements. So we suggest to consider a MR diffusion panoramic study (whole-body diffusion MR) when multiple follow-up imaging is required in young patients who are at high risk for chronic radiation damage, so that alternatives to PET study may be taken into consideration.
authors.affiliation: Misericordia e Dolce Hospital, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. apratesi@sirm.org
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pratesi
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Medici
authors.forename: Renzo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bresci
authors.forename: Annalisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Micheli
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barni
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pratesi
mesh_terms: D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D001855:Bone Marrow Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans