Vaginal cancer MRI

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Pelvic MRI

Imaging features will somewhat depend on the histologcial type of malignancy.

Reported general signal characteristics in general include :

• T1: isointense to muscle
• T2: high signal intensity compared with muscle

Reported signal charactersitics for squamous cell carcinoma include :

• T1: low signal intensity
• T2: intermediate signal intensity