CT and MR imaging of desmoplastic fibroblastoma.

Eur Radiol

Department of Radiology, Oita Medical University, Hasama-machi, Oita 879-5593, Japan.

Published: October 2002

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  • Desmoplastic fibroblastoma, also known as collagenous fibroma, is identified as a slowly growing mass in the lower abdomen.
  • Imaging studies revealed low signal intensity on T1-weighted MRI and a mix of low and high signal intensity on T2-weighted MRI, indicating varying tissue composition.
  • Histological analysis showed that the low signal intensity areas were dense with collagen and had fewer cells compared to the high signal intensity regions.

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Desmoplastic fibroblastoma (collagenous fibroma) developing as a slowly enlarging lower abdominal mass is described. The lesion had inhomogeneous low signal intensity (SI) on T1-weighted images, and mixed SI as low SI within high SI on T2-weighted images. On post-contrast T1-weighted images, the mass showed inhomogeneous enhancement. Histologically, the areas showing low SI on both post-contrast T1- and T2-weighted images consisted of dense collagenous components and reduced cellularity compared with the areas showing high SI on them.

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