Vulvar cancer MRI

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MRI

Particularly useful in accurately assessing the size (up to ~80 accurate 3) of vulval lesion and assessing groin lymph node metastasis

Signal characterisitcs include:

T1: low 4 to intermediate 1 signal T2: typically intermediate 4 to high 1 signal