Magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium DTPA assessment of bladder carcinoma and its response to treatment

ABSTRACT

Selection of appropriate managemenetof bladder carcinoma depends on accurate staging. Cystoscope and examination under anaesthesia are limited in their ability to assess deep tumour extension, extravesical spread and quite often radiotherapy bladder distortion by fibrosis and oedema obscure residual and recurrent tumour. MRI is accurate in staging of bladder carcinoma, the ability of Gd-DTPA-enhanced MRI it identify and define the extent of primary bladder carcinoma and to evaluate response to treatment in patients receiving and to detect residual and recurrent tumour after was also mentioned in this study