MRI in chronic groin pain: sequence diagnostic reliability compared to systematic surgical assessment.

Objective: To determine the diagnostic reliability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences in chronic groin pain (CGP) compared to surgery and try to propose a suitable MRI protocol.

Materials And Methods: Forty-three consecutive patients with resistant clinical CGP underwent a pre-surgical pelvis MRI. Eight MRI sequences were acquired: axial fast spin-echo T1-weighted (FSE T1), coronal FSE T1, axial-oblique (in symphysis plane) proton density weighted with fat saturation (PDFS), coronal PDFS, sagittal PDFS, axial FSE T1 with fat saturation and gadolinium enhancement (FSGE), coronal FSE T1 FSGE and axial FSE T1 with Valsalva maneuver (VM).