Fast Breath-Hold T2-Weighted MR Imaging Reduces Interobserver Variability in the Diagnosis of Adenomyosis
Marc Bazot1,
Emile Daraï2,
Sébastien Clément de Givry1,
Frank Boudghène1,
Serge Uzan2 and
Alain Ferdinand Le Blanche1
1 Department of Radiology, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance
Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 4 rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris,
France.
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance
Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75020 Paris, France.

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Fig. 1A. MR imaging in 44-year-old woman with adenomyosis. Ill-defined
hypointense area containing high-intensity spots in posterior myometrium
(arrow) is visible on turbo spin-echo T2-weighted image.
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Fig. 2A. MR imaging in 40-year-old woman with interstitial posterior
and submucosal myomas (arrows) but no adenomyosis. Ghosting artifact
seen on turbo spin-echo T2-weighted sequence impairs image quality.
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Fig. 1B. MR imaging in 44-year-old woman with adenomyosis. Image
quality and anatomic visualization are poor on turbo inversion recovery
sequence.
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Fig. 2B. MR imaging in 40-year-old woman with interstitial posterior
and submucosal myomas (arrows) but no adenomyosis. Blurring on turbo
inversion recovery sequence impairs image quality.
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Fig. 1C. MR imaging in 44-year-old woman with adenomyosis. Anterior
image artifacts (arrow) are present on true fast imaging with
steady-state free precession.
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Fig. 2C. MR imaging in 40-year-old woman with interstitial posterior
and submucosal myomas (arrows) but no adenomyosis. True fast imaging
with steady-state free precession gives high image quality.
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