Detection of bronchial cancer recurrence in fibrothorax using nuclear magnetic resonance tomography

Herborn, B.; Vallée, D.

Pneumologie 44(Suppl 1): 598-600

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0934-8387
PMID: 2367479
Document Number: 355792
A case is reported in which magnetic resonance imaging successfully differentiated tumour nodules from the connective tissue of a fibrothorax. Computed tomography of the thorax had previously failed to distinguish the tumour tissue. This clearly makes magnetic resonance superior to computed tomography in the differentiation of different tissues within a fibrothorax.

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