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Dark Shades In Upper & Lower Back MRI. What Does This Mean?
I had a MRI taken of my upper and lower back. The Doctors tell me they don t know what it is. A Neurosurgeon had me take a enhanced MRI but he said it really didn t help. He said, let s not worry about bone cancer right now. D you have any idea what it could be? I forgot to tell you that the Doctors have said there is dark shadows in both the upper and lower MRI
Tue, 16 Apr 2013
Hello and welcome to HCM,
Well it is difficult to comment anything on the basis of just dark shadows on upper and lower MRI.
However, just to give you a brief ovarview.
Any mass which is described to have enhancement on MRI or CT scan suggests a mass which is well vascularized.
A vascular lesion can be anything- an infectious focus, an inflammtory focus or a cancer.
The imaging studies have to be correlated with the clinical findings.
I hope you are helped by my answer.
Thanks and take care.
Dr Shailja P Wahal
Well it is difficult to comment anything on the basis of just dark shadows on upper and lower MRI.
However, just to give you a brief ovarview.
Any mass which is described to have enhancement on MRI or CT scan suggests a mass which is well vascularized.
A vascular lesion can be anything- an infectious focus, an inflammtory focus or a cancer.
The imaging studies have to be correlated with the clinical findings.
I hope you are helped by my answer.
Thanks and take care.
Dr Shailja P Wahal
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