MRI of Pediatric Soft Tissue Masses

Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Marilyn Siegel MD, guides the referring physician through a summary of technical considerations, including the basic MR sequences, and the advantages of each in the evaluation of soft tissue masses in children. She further explains the utility of MR in the evaluation of the various soft tissue masses in children, together with descriptions of the MR imaging characteristics seen in the differentiation of vascular, neoplastic, and traumatic masses, and shows how MRI is an important diagnostic tool in staging of soft tissue masses, particularly deep or infiltrative lesions.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series of ebooks offers practicing clinicians - both primary care doctors and specialists - a quick and easy reference to over 100 distinct conditions, and how state-of-the-art imaging should be applied within the context of diagnosis, preoperative staging and therapy monitoring.

Authored by board certified radiologists who also teach at the finest medical schools in the U.S. and abroad, each ebook is presented in a clear and concise manner meant to be read in less than an hour, yet contains all the necessary information with which to base a decision on when to order advanced imaging studies for the particular disease process under review.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series offers doctors the opportunity to access crucial information quickly and economically as cases present in daily practice, without the need to invest in a large, all-encompassing (and expensive) tome.