BRONCHIAL CARCINOID-TUMOR - DEMONSTRATION BY DYNAMIC INVERSION-RECOVERY TURBO-FLASH MR-IMAGING

A 38-year-old woman was referred to our hospital following the discove ry of a right hilar mass : on chest radiograph. Retrospectively, a hil ar mass could be seen on a chest X-ray which had been obtained 5 years earlier. A coronal dynamic inversion recovery turbo-FLASH gadolinium- enhanced sequence was performed, demonstrating the right lesion which enhanced during the systemic arterial phase indicating an arterial sup ply from the bronchial arterial circulation, The surgical and patholog ical findings were a bronchial carcinoid tumor, with foci of bone form ation.