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What Does My MRI And CT Scan Reports Indicate?

Doctor, I am Mr Pedro John petelo Brown. The question I want to ask you, why the CT scan get the picture of a turma, and the Mri scan didn t get the picture of the turma growing on my liver? That is the question I asked my family doctor, when I finished seen the special list, and he did not know the answer too. So I am still looking for an answer. Can you help me please. Yours sincerely Pedro John petelo Brown. I am from Auckland New Zealand.
Mon, 9 Nov 2015
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Hello,

Usually MRI is more sensitive at picking up problems in the soft tissues like the liver. If there was indeed a mass seen on CT which is not seen on MRI, it may be due to something called transient hepatic attenuation differentiation where there appears to be a mass on CT because of how the contrast that was injected behaves in the liver.

If the MRI showed no mass, I would say you probably do not have a mass, but I would need to see the images to be sure.

All the best.
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What Does My MRI And CT Scan Reports Indicate?

Hello, Usually MRI is more sensitive at picking up problems in the soft tissues like the liver. If there was indeed a mass seen on CT which is not seen on MRI, it may be due to something called transient hepatic attenuation differentiation where there appears to be a mass on CT because of how the contrast that was injected behaves in the liver. If the MRI showed no mass, I would say you probably do not have a mass, but I would need to see the images to be sure. All the best.