Adrenal myelolipoma

Case contributed by Natalie Yang , 16 Aug 2009
Diagnosis almost certain
Changed by Francis Fortin, 22 Jul 2018

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If the lesion contains intracellular lipid it will show characteristic signal loss on out-of-phase imaging as compared to in-phase. Many adrenal myelolipomas containscontain macroscopic fat, however, which will fat saturate, but not become hypointense on the out of phase sequence.

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