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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: cathyroe on March 13, 2015, 05:52:10 am

Title: Anyone know what this means?
Post by: cathyroe on March 13, 2015, 05:52:10 am

Hi AN pals,
I just got my 6 month MRI letter from Dr. Lunsford that says " there is some evidence of loss of central contrast enhancement ". Anyone know what that means? Dare I hope it could mean necrosis?

Title: Re: Anyone know what this means?
Post by: jsanders1379 on March 13, 2015, 11:28:32 am

yes! that's usually what it means...

Title: Re: Anyone know what this means?
Post by: SueLL on March 13, 2015, 11:38:38 am

Cathy - My letter had similar results.  I googled and found a few mentions of the term:

From a paper co-authored by Dr L:

"Central necrosis (defined as loss of central contrast enhancement) was observed in one tumor."

from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980715)83:2%3C344::AID-CNCR19%3E3.0.CO;2-T/full

Another said: "By MRI, there was central loss of contrast - an early sign of success in treating acoustic neuromas."

from http://anworld.com/newbies/LedermanPapers.html