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Paramagnetic contrast administration is routinely used in the evaluation of perianal disease in order to detect the presence of active inflammation within fistula tracts as well as abscesses.
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Villa, C. (2013). Dynamic MRI and the Assessment of Activity. In: Tonolini, M., Maconi, G. (eds) Imaging of Perianal Inflammatory Diseases. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2847-0_19
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