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Three cases of collagenous fibroma with rim enhancement on postcontrast T1-weighted images with fat suppression

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Collagenous fibroma, also known as desmoplastic fibroblastoma, is a benign fibrous soft tissue tumor showing gradual growth, commonly without aggressive local infiltration. Today, preoperative radiological diagnosis is important to avoid over-treatment and unnecessary extensive procedures, but is difficult because diagnostic imaging findings for collagenous fibroma have not been established. We report MR imaging findings of three collagenous fibromas in correlation with their histopathology. The characteristic rim enhancement on post-contrast T1-weighted images with fat suppression was present in all three cases, and we consider this to represent the difference in vascularity between the outer capsule-like fibrous tissue and the inside of the tumor.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashiku, Tokyo, Japan

    Asako Yamamoto, Koichi Takada & Shigeru Furui

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Abe, Yusuke Enomoto & Takashi Matsushita

  3. Department of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Tetsuo Imamura

  4. Department of Radiology, Musashimurayama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Arimi Harasawa

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Yamamoto, A., Abe, S., Imamura, T. et al. Three cases of collagenous fibroma with rim enhancement on postcontrast T1-weighted images with fat suppression. Skeletal Radiol 42, 141–146 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-012-1484-4

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