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Endometriosis on MRI Case 9

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So our very last case very, very quickly.

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So this is a 30-year-old female. History, I'm going to withhold.

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So if we look, I'm going to just jump to the finding.

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We look at the axial T2.

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We see a little noduler area that is T2 hypointense.

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If we look at that same finding on the T1,

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and I apologize, this was an abdomen and a pelvis.

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And so our usual sequences are...

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We didn't follow our typical protocol here.

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So that finding is very avidly enhancing on the post cons.

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And I know that there is a T1 pre here somewhere.

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I just need to find it. Here we go.

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So if we look at the T1 pre of the pelvis,

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it's intrinsically T1 bright.

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So, can we get the last question, please?

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So which of the following is not typically

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present in women with abdominal wall endometriosis?

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Is it a history of endometriosis itself, a history of prior pelvic surgery,

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of cyclical abdominal pain, or of a palpable mass?

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All right, so we have a couple of answers

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for history of palpable mass and then one answer for history of endometriosis.

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And the correct answer is actually history of endometriosis.

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So it is common for women to have

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a history of pelvic surgery, cesarean section being the most common.

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And then the endometriosis implant itself causes a palpable mass that becomes

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cyclically larger and painful, which was the history this patient had.

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It is not necessary for women to have a history of endometriosis to develop

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abdominal wall endometriosis in the postoperative setting.

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And so, don't think that it can't be endometriosis just because the patient

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doesn't have endometriosis elsewhere in her pelvis.

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Faculty

Kristine S Burk, MD

Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Tags

Uterus

MRI

Gynecologic (Gyn)

Gynecologic (GYN)

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