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The interrupted rim sign in acute cholecystitis: A method to identify the gangrenous form with MRI

✍ Scribed by Ivan Pedrosa; Alessandro Guarise; Jeffrey Goldsmith; Carlo Procacci; Neil M. Rofsky


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
765 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
1053-1807

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Abstract

We present the imaging findings on MR of a patient with acute gangrenous cholecystitis that demonstrated patchy enhancement of the gallbladder mucosa on gadolinium‐enhanced fat‐saturated T1‐weighted gradient echo images. This interrupted rim of mucosal enhancement correlated with patchy areas of necrosis and inflammation of the gallbladder mucosa on the histopathological examination. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2003;18:360–363. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.