Bladder and Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Cancer
| Autor: | M. A. Badawy, Tarek El-Diasty, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Urinary system 030232 urology & nephrology food and beverages Magnetic resonance imaging Tumor Staging Tumor response 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Urothelial cancer Effective diffusion coefficient sense organs cardiovascular diseases Radiology business Chemoradiotherapy Upper urinary tract |
| Zdroj: | Diffusion Weighted Imaging of the Genitourinary System ISBN: 9783319695747 |
| Popis: | Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a promising noninvasive technique that provides qualitative and quantitative information of tissue cellularity and the integrity of cellular membranes. DWI has a large number of potential clinical applications in the evaluation of urinary tract especially in the field of oncology. Addition of DWI to conventional MRI sequences can address many of the diagnostic problems, like detection of small lesions and differentiating recurrent lesions from postoperative inflammatory changes. DWI improves tumor staging by MRI that has a great impact on patient’s management. DWI can be used in monitoring of tumor response to chemoradiotherapy; it can detect early changes in tumor metabolism and microstructural changes that can be detected by changes in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the lesions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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