Pulmonary sequestration: Three dimensional dynamic contrast-enhanced MR angiography and MRI

Abstract

In order to evaluate the diagnostic value of three-dimentional contrast-enhanced MR angiography and MRI for pulmonary sequestration, 5 patients with pulmonary sequestration underwent 3D fast imaging by steady state precession (FISP) with a contrast medium and breath holding following chest radiography, CT and MR scans. The reconstructed MR angiography was performed using maximum intensity projection (MIP) and multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) techniques. It was found that the chest radiography showed pulmonary sequestration as a persistent area of opacity in the posterior basal segment of the left lower lobe, which was close to mediastinum in 2 cases and close to diaphragma in 3 cases. CT revealed a soft issue mass beyond descending aorta and lobar emphysema around the pulmonary sequestration. And the supplying vessel was documented in 2 cases on enhanced CT. MRI demonstrated a hyperintensity mass with respect to normal lung parenchyma on T1WI and T2WI, and the origin of the supplying vessel in 3 cases. The reconstructed CE MRA using MIP or MRP techniques clearly showed the supplying vessel and its course, branches as well as draining vessels. It was concluded that 3D CE MRA of demonstrating the supplying and draining vessels to pulmonary sequestration, together with plain MRI, can provide a diagnosis and aid in surgical planning without the need for DSA.

Keywords

pulmonary sequestration / magnetic resonance angiography / contrast medium / magnetic resonance imaging

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