Hepatic Hemangiomas: Factors Associated with Pseudo Washout Sign on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR Imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences : MRMS : an Official Journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Akihiro TateyamaFumihiko Nakamura

Abstract

Our study aim was to clarify the characteristics of hemangiomas with pseudo washout sign (PWS) by comparing their features with those of hemangiomas without PWS on gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. We evaluated the features of hemangiomas on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging of 70 hepatic hemangiomas in 31 patients, investigating the presence of peripheral or central nodular enhancement, diffuse enhancement, and arterioportal shunt during the arterial phase, fill-in enhancement during the portal venous phase, and PWS, which is low signal intensity during the late phase. We visually assessed the intensity of contrast enhancement of the lesion during the arterial, portal venous, late, and hepatobiliary phases using a 4-grade scale and used the Fisher exact and Mann-Whitney U tests to compare hemangiomas with and without PWS. We observed PWS in 33 (47%) of 70 hemangiomas, which were significantly smaller than the hemangiomas without PWS (17.4 mm ± 20.3 versus 30.1 mm ± 28.5; P = 0.005); more frequent diffuse enhancement in hemangiomas with PWS than those without (21.2% versus 2.7%; P = 0.026); and no significant differences in nodular enhancement (P = 0...Continue Reading

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