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MRI in the workup of biliary tract filling defects
Author(s) -
Eason Joseph B.,
Taylor Andrew J.,
Yu Jinxing
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.23847
Subject(s) - biliary tract , magnetic resonance imaging , medicine , radiology , magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography , endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography , surgery , pancreatitis
Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have made imaging the biliary tract faster while providing excellent anatomic reproduction of this duct system. MRI/MR‐cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) has now become the first‐line imaging procedure for many biliary tract problems. This work briefly discusses the MR techniques for biliary tree imaging and reviews MRI's role in the numerous diagnoses of filling defects in the biliary tract. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2013;37:1020–1034. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.