Vaginal cancer MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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Overview

Pelvic MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of vaginal cancer.

Pelvic MRI

MRI can assist in determining the primary vaginal tumor size and local extent. 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