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Fig. 5 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 5

From: Cross-sectional imaging of acute gynaecologic disorders: CT and MRI findings with differential diagnosis—part II: uterine emergencies and pelvic inflammatory disease

Fig. 5

Leiomyoma with haemorrhagic degeneration in a 37-year-old woman with a palpable abdominal mass, pelvic pain and fever. Sagittal (a) and oblique-coronal (b) T2-weighted images show a huge subserosal leiomyoma arising from the posterior wall of the uterus, with heterogeneous signal intensity (arrowheads). On oblique-coronal fat-suppressed T1-weighted image (c), the mass demonstrates hyperintense signal (arrowhead) consistent with haemorrhagic degeneration, without contrast enhancement after gadolinium administration (d)

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