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MRI of the Peritoneum: Spectrum of Abnormalities

¹ Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 S Kingshighway Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110.
² Present address: Theodore Bilharz Institute, Giza, Egypt.
³ Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
⁴ Department of Surgical Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

OBJECTIVE. Our objective was to detail peritoneal anatomy, techniques for optimizing peritoneal MRI, and the MRI characteristics of several disease processes that frequently involve the peritoneum.

CONCLUSION. Homogeneous fat suppression and dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging, including delayed imaging, are critical technical factors for successful lesion detection and characterization on peritoneal MRI.

Keywords: abdominal imaging • MRI • peritoneum

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