Whole-body MRI in the detection of bone marrow infiltration in patients with plasma cell neoplasms in comparison to the radiological skeletal survey

[...]it is more sensitive and specific than RSS and reveals bone marrow infiltration and extensive disease more reliably. [...]whole-body MRI should be performed as an additional method of exactly staging PCN patients and--with more data in the field--may even prove to be an alternate and more sensi...

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Published inClinical imaging Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 440 - 441
Main Authors Ghanem, N., Lohrmann, C., Engelhardt, M., Pache, G., Uhl, M., Saueressig, U., Kotter, E., Langer, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Elsevier Inc 01.11.2006
Elsevier Limited
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Bone marrow
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Tomography
Tumors
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Summary:[...]it is more sensitive and specific than RSS and reveals bone marrow infiltration and extensive disease more reliably. [...]whole-body MRI should be performed as an additional method of exactly staging PCN patients and--with more data in the field--may even prove to be an alternate and more sensitive staging procedure than RSS in PCN patients.
ISSN:0899-7071
1873-4499
DOI:10.1016/j.clinimag.2006.08.018