Why the study?
Does cine MRI accurately evaluate cardiovascular invasion of thoracic masses by demonstrating sliding motion?
Population
26 patients with thoracic masses and equivocal cardiovascular invasion on chest CT and/or MRI, surgically…
Comparison
Breathheld ECG-gated cine MRI using a… vs Surgical confirmation (reference standard).
Design
Cohort
Authors
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May support noninvasive assessment of thoracic mass invasion; leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
Does cine MRI accurately evaluate cardiovascular invasion of thoracic masses by demonstrating sliding motion?
Cine MRI using SSFP provides high diagnostic accuracy (94.4%) for evaluating cardiovascular invasion of thoracic masses by assessing sliding motion.
Seo et al. (2005) studied this question.
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