Classifies neurogenic and skin tumors as a separate entity
Mucinous material inversely related to differentiation
50% of soft tissue masses, ct – 65 to – 120 HU, septa <2 mm diameter, no capsule. MRI – T1 hyper comparable to sc fat, T2 hyper, completely fat suppressible. Doppler- no pae, no flow
Suspect malignancy – thick septa, nodules, retroperitoneal location, mineralisation.
T1/T2FS
T1/PDFS
Fatty mass in the deltoid with entrapped muscle fibres
T1/T2FS
Diffuse overgrowth or regional deposition of mature adipose tissue, clinical – depending on the location.
Adiposis dolorosa or dercum disease /madelung disease– multiple sc painful lipomas. Affects post menopausal women , psychiatric symptoms.
Cxr – med widening / double contour effect – shadows of fat with normal med structures
Clinical- associated with steroid excess, cough, decreased IVC return,
IVP – medial deviation of ureters, pear shaped bladder, elevated bladder base.
Ct – perirectal and perivesical fat infiltration, straightened or narrow recto-sigmoid colon.
Chronic inflammation causing atrophy of renal tissue / worsened by steroids.
IVU – effacement and stretcing of PCS
CT & MR – fat proliferation in parapelvic region with renal parenchymal atrophy
Axial ct/ sag T1
Low density mass in midline posterior fossa, with smaller masses in bl CP angles.
Sag shows extending into upper cervical canal and another lipoma in cp angle cistern.
2 yrs later - Axial pd / t1sag- increase in size of the lesion, extending to middle cranial fossa.
Chemical shift artifact on the anterior margins of the lesion. Fishman syndrome or haberland syndrome
Overgrowth of normal epidural fat
Can cause radicular pain and spinal cord compression
Overgrowth of thumb and index finger, bony overgrowth +, from birth women,
Usg – of median nerve - Coaxial cable appearance in cross section
Lipomatosis of median nerve
Median >digital br of median n >ulnar >radial
Axial and coronal T1
Fat containing mass in the right psoas muscle with central nodlarity
Coronal depicts branching of lumbar plexus
Coonal T1/ T2FS
Papillary masses in the knee jt.
It could be synovial proliferation but it has fat signal intensity. Large joint effusion –chronic inflammation.
Axial gradient echo mage – the fat had similar intensity to sc fat in other sequences/but to marrow fat in gradient sequence.
Infiltration of fat tissue in the synovium and subsynovial tissue forming frond like masses
Kneejt mc. Unilateral in 94%.
Lateral radiograph demonstrates a moderately large lucency ſt within the
mid calf. No periosteal reaction or soft tissue calcification is present.
Immature growth plates in a child.
Axial T1T2FS.
Young age should suggest Benign paediatric tumour –lipoblastoma. Present within 3 yrs of age. Circumscribed and diffuse forms. Resembles fetal adipose tissue. Myxoid+. Critical structures.
Axial T1 / axial STIR
Mass st in the posterior compartment of the upper arm.
Intensity higher than muscle but not as high as sc fat.
predominantly complex appearance containing septa and enlarged vessels. Stir -hyper
T1/T2FS
Intensity/ septa/blood vessels
T1/t2fs/t1fs+c/cect
Large vessels seen along periphery and within the mass.
Similar vascularity in liposarcoma.
Angio in a similar presacral lesion –vascular blush. Avid tracer uptake on PET
m. c location –thigh, >sholuder back neck chest arm. middle aged,
4 variants –typical, myxoid, lipoma like, spindle cell
AP radiograph of thigh – bizarre periosteal reaction perpendicular to the shaft.
There is both cortical thickening and scalloping.
Axial T1/T1FS C/cor t1
Density same as sc fat/ osseous excresence or a perosteal new bone
Ct – fat density lesion abutting the shaft with osseous excresence.
Femur mc. No therapeutic implications – unless nerve compression
Well differentiated liposarcoma.
Locally aggressive tumour which can dedifferentiate into liposarcoma – sclerosing variant mc.
Deep extremities, thigh mc. Retroperitoneal 80% mortality.
T1 / t2fs/ t1 c – well defined mass in the upper arm, hyper on t2, flame shaped high signal on either side.
Dd – pnst,myxoma. But location at the intersection of muscle and fascia – nodular fasciitis.
Tender, surgical excision. Upper extremity mc
Mineralized mass on bone surface. Dd – periosteal chondroma, osteochondroma.
Cleavage plane bw mass and bony cortex.
Discontinuous Medullary canal. Bpop – disorganised mass of fibrous tissue with bone and cartilage. Mildly painful, excision.
Crescentic or lenticular fbrous mass entrapped between fat . Location – between scapula nd chest wall. Deep to lattismus and rhomboid major.
Reactve lesion due to friction between scapula and chest wall. No malignant transformation. Excised if symptomatic.
Rapidly growing sc mass in infants, mc males, location – axilla, upper arm and shoulder.
Mr – soft tissue mass isointense to muscle + fat –hyperechoic on usg. Simulate malignancy – but benign. No maligant potential.
Radiograph showing Lobulated lucent lesion in the metaphysis with sparing of region adjacent to physis, eccentric location.
Faint central calcification may be present – myofibroma. Mc fibrous tumour of infancy.
It can involve bone, muscle or viscera. Half –solitary, c or sc, head and neck.
Less than 2 yrs, male predominance, no malignant potential, may regress spont, sx.
T1/t2fs - Hypo in both / Rich vascularity in doppler.
Collagenous fibroma. Sx. Extremities mc, sc location.
Axial and cor t1fs c –persistently low signal intensity.
T1 /t2fs / t1fs c
Growth plates /speckled foci of low signal-stippled calcifications / intense enhancement. Erosion +
Small slowly growing mass in child –palms soles wrist and ankles. Recurrence -50 %
Calcifying/juvenile aponeurotic fibroma x ray
Locally infiltrative aggressive, fibroblastic lesions involving plantar fascia. T1/t2fs
Non weight bearing sole / plantar fascia / X ray – flexion deformity
/ plantar 2-3 cms, medial location
Cor t1/ t1fs c
Palmar - <1 cm, 50 % bilateral, volar 4532 peyronie
T1 /STIR – homogenous persistently low signal
Gardner syndrome/ small bowel mesentery/ likely to recur/ short gut syndrome
Rectus abdominis and internal oblique muscles
3-7 cms, painless mass during or after pregnancy, least likely to recur
Commonly in females 20-30 years old
Intensely enhancing cect – hypervascular in angio,
Paraspinal hemangiopericytoma.
Thin walled branching Staghorn configuration of vessels
T1/stir/pdfs – large feeding vessels-intense enhancement
Paraneoplastic syndrome – IGF – Hypoglycemia.
10-15 % recur mets/ aggressive – mediastinal rp location/ Overall prog good
Axial ct/stir/ t1c – mass involving ant tendinous insertion of lateral rectus muscle.
INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMOUR. Mc lung and orbit. Children & young adults.
Found throughout the body.
Fever, night sweats, wt loss, Sx, nsaids, steroids.
Rare, malignant neoplasm of infancy.
Pain less rapidly enlarging mass in extremity, amputation. Less aggressive than adult fs
T1/t2 forearm
Ct/ t1c –large necrotic areas.
Lower leg –t2/t1c
All muscles of ant compartment, mets – lung and axial skeleton
Central non enh necrosis
Ct t1 t2fs tt1c
homogenous
Heterogenous
Thigh mc location
Central geographic areas of non enhancement is typical
Poorly differentiated – painful 33 %, mets 43%, recur 50%, mortality 50%
Benign synovial proliferation in tendon sheath
Erosions
Lobulated, intermediated in t1 t2, intense enhancement.
T1 t2 t1c
Lobulated mass in the peri-articular tissues, lacks villi, knee,thigh, more aggressive needs wide sx
Median size – 3 cms, low on t1 and t2,
Ext>head and neck
Fluctuant, extensively haemorrhagic lesion-mimicking haematoma or abcess
T1 t2 t1c
Low grade sarcoma of dermis and cutis, transform+, mets +, young middle aged males
Benign painful neoplasm knee thigh females
Straight linear vessels with convergence to one point