Fig 1.
Flow chart of included and excluded patients.
Table 1.
Data of the patient population.
Table 2.
Pulse sequence parameters on MR studies.
Fig 2.
Woman 54 y with right colon cancer.
Pre surgical MRI study: In A (SPACE FS T2-W sequence) white arrow shows parenchymal metastasis and yellow arrow shows subcapsular lesion. Parenchimal lesion is not detected by HAlf fourier Single- shot Turbo spin-Echo (HASTE) T2-W sequence (in B) while subcapsular lesion is detected. In EOB phase contrast study the metastases appear as hypointense lesions with restricted diffusion in DWI sequences and hypointense signal in ADC map (D, E and F).
Fig 3.
Pre surgical MRI study: In A (SPACE FS T2-W sequence) arrow shows subcapsular lesion. HASTE T2-W sequence (in B) does not detect the lesion, while is preset an indirect sign (capsular retraction), arrow. In EOB phase contrast study the metastasis appear as hypointense lesion with restricted diffusion in DWI sequences and hypointense signal in ADC map (D, E and F).
Fig 4.
Woman 48 y with left colon cancer.
Pre surgical MRI study: In A (SPACE FS T2-W sequence) arrow shows subcapsular lesion. HASTE T2-W sequence (in B) does not detect the lesion, arrow. In EOB phase contrast study the metastasis appear as hypointense lesion without restricted diffusion in DWI sequences (D, E and F).
Table 3.
Imaging features at MRI.