Hemangiomas in the face and extremities: MR-guided sclerotherapy--optimization with monitoring of signal intensity changes in vivo.

Hayashi, Naoto; Masumoto, Tomohiko; Okubo, Toshiyuki; Abe, Osamu; Kaji, Nobuyuki; Tokioka, Kazuyuki; Aoki, Shigeki; Ohtomo, Kuni · Radiology · 2003

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Abstract

The feasibility of a method of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided sclerotherapy for hemangioma was evaluated. The distribution of a test injection and a contiguous sclerosant injection was monitored clearly with MR fluoroscopy. Postsclerotherapy T2-weighted MR images depicted areas with and those without effective sclerosant concentration, which enabled performance of selective supplemental sclerotherapy. This method of MR-guided sclerotherapy seems feasible for clinical application.

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