Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Evaluation of Intracranial Tumors: A Prospective Study in A Tertiary Hospital
Authors: Dr Shivani Gogi, Dr Veena, Dr Anil, Dr Shanthi Sree, Dr Mounika
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i8.19
Abstract
Aims and Objectives: 1. Diagnosis of intra cranial neoplasm on MRI. 2. To accurately determine the lesion characteristics.
Summary: In the present study for a period of 2 years (2015 – 2017) 130 cases from age group of 5-65 years suspected to be intracranial mass lesion on CT brain were elevated with MRI using various sequences and showed various supra and infratentorial and extra / intra axial cranial tumors.
Conclusion:
- Accuracy of predicting diagnosis of extra axial lesions is better than that of intra-axial lesion on MRI with 100% correlation with HPE in extra axial mass lesions
- Most of MR diagnosis correlated with histopathogical diagnosis.
- MRI is better in interpreting certain pathologies like infarction /reactive gliosis which produce similar morphological appearance to primary brain neoplasm on CT.
Keywords: MRI, intra axial; extra axial neoplasm, supratentorial, infratentorial tumors.
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