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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
MRI
MRI scans are helpful to visualize
- Adrenal tumor mass.
- Metastatic lesions
- Adrenocortical carcinomas are usually large at diagnosis and appear heterogeneous on both T1- and T2-weighted images owing to the presence of internal hemorrhage and necrosis.
- Adrenocortical carcinoma can contain foci of intracytoplasmic lipid, which results in a loss of signal intensity on out-of-phase images.
- Large adrenal carcinomas tend to invade the adrenal vein and inferior vena cava.
MRI is also be used to differentiate adrenocortical carcinomas from adrenal adenomas.