INTRAMUSCULAR HEMANGIOMA - MR-IMAGING CON TRIBUTION

The authors report one case of a relatively common benign tumor, heman gioma, although in an uncommon location, intra-muscular. The radiologi cal exploration, principaly MR imaging has a great interest to specify the diagnosis and the regional extension. Intramuscular hemangioma ap pears with a relatively low signal intensity on T1-weighted images, bu t demonstrate a clear delineation of the extent of the lesion on T2-we ighted images, because of high contrast between hemangiomas and surrou nding muscle. The informations obtained with MR imaging may be valuabl e clinically in planning surgical resection.