When contouring gliomas, how do you distinguish true tumor-related FLAIR from ischemic changes from prior strokes?
The latter tends to present as multiple small white punctate lesions on FLAIR. Do you tend to include them to be safe that you're not missing?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Arizona
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FLAIR alone often cannot reliably distinguish infiltrative tumor from chronic/subacute ischemic change. In a patient with a glioma and a previous stroke, the distinction should be made using the pattern of the FLAIR, temporal evolution, diffusion, perfusion, and sometimes metabolic imaging. The temp...
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Radiation Oncology · South Texas Oncology Hematology
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I rely on diagnostic radiologist discussions.
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