Vaginal cancer MRI

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Pelvic MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of vaginal cancer.

Pelvic MRI

Imaging features will somewhat depend on the histologcial type of malignancy.

Reported general signal characteristics in general include :

  • T1: isointense to muscle
  • T2: high signal intensity compared with muscle

Reported signal charactersitics for squamous cell carcinoma include :

  • T1: low signal intensity
  • T2: intermediate signal intensity

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