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MRI for evaluation of perianal inflammation

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Abstract

Background:

We describe the value of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in six distinct clinical settings often encountered in cases of perirectal inflammatory disease.

Methods:

MRI was performed on six patients with known perianal inflammatory disease; the number, anatomic extent, location, and signal intensities of various lesions and their associated complications were assessed.

Results:

MRI is a noninvasive technique that is useful in the diagnosis and management of perirectal inflammatory disease.

Conclusions:

In patients with known fistulas, MRI may determine the lesion's anatomic extent, localize unsuspected fistulas, and confirm or exclude the inflammation of the fistulous tract(s). Information obtained by MRI examination may, in turn, be used to determine treatment of patients with perirectal inflammatory lesions and can be a useful adjunct in following results of therapy.

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  1. R. B. Rafal

    Present address: Department of Radiology, New York Methodist Hospital, 506 Sixth Street, 11215, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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  1. Department of Radiology, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, 10021, New York, NY, USA

    R. B. Rafal, J. N. Nichols & E. Kazam

  2. Department of Surgery, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, 10021, New York, NY, USA

    W. J. Cennerazzo & J. J. DeCosse

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Rafal, R.B., Nichols, J.N., Cennerazzo, W.J. et al. MRI for evaluation of perianal inflammation. Abdom Imaging 20, 248–252 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00200407

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