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Digestive system

MRI scans

Nuclear magnetic resonance - abdomen; NMR - abdomen; Magnetic resonance imaging - abdomen; MRI of the abdomen

The sensitivity of MRI depends, in part, on the experience of the radiologist.

Abdominal MRI may reveal many medical conditions, including:

• Abscess
• Acute tubular necrosis
• Adrenal masses
• Cancer
• Enlarged spleen or liver
• Gallbladder or bile duct problems
• Gallstones , bile duct stones
• Glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the kidney glomeruli)
• Hemangiomas , or others
• Hydronephrosis (kidney enlargement from reflux of urine)
• Kidney damage
• Lymphadenopathy (abnormalities of the lymph nodes)
• Obstructed vena cava
• Pancreatic cancer
• Portal vein obstruction (liver)
• Renal arterial obstruction
• Renal vein thrombosis
• Transplant rejection
• Tumor of the gallbladder

• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Acute renal failure
• Adenomyosis
• Atheroembolic renal disease
• Carcinoma of the renal pelvis or ureter
• Chronic renal failure
• Cystinuria
• Hydatidiform mole
• Injury of the kidney and ureter
• Insulinoma
• Islet of Langerhans' tumor
• Medullary cystic disease
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) II
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) I
• Nephrolithiasis
• Ovarian cancer
• Pheochromocytoma
• Skin lesion of histoplasmosis

Review Date: 01/24/2007
Reviewed By: Stuart Bentley-Hibbert, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.