ABDOMINAL MACRONODULAR TUBERCULOMAS - MR FINDINGS

Purpose: Our goal was to determine the appearance of abdominal macrono dular tuberculomas on MRI. Method: MR findings of two patients with ab dominal macronodular tuberculoma, one of the liver and the other in th e kidney, were reviewed. Results: These two tuberculomas, histological ly confirmed to have no calcification, hemorrhaging, or fibrosis, comm only showed low signal intensity on both T1- and T2-weighted images. C onclusion: We report two cases of a macronodular tuberculoma in the li ver and kidney, which is visualized as a region of hypointensity on T2 -weighted MR images. This finding appears to be important in reaching a definitive diagnosis of an abdominal tuberculoma.