Establishing a Chest MRI Practice and its Clinical Applications: Our Insight and Protocols
A 32-year-old male with biopsy-proven sarcomatoid carcinoma involving the right middle lobe was evaluated by MRI.[] shows an example of the right middle lobe malignant mass suspicious of pericardial invasion, a finding confirmed at surgery. In this case, T2-weighted images using a BLADE TSE/PROPELLER FSE technique and ECG-gated double inversion-recovery FSE images were particularly useful in characterizing disease extent.