Elsevier

Clinical Radiology

Volume 52, Issue 4, April 1997, Pages 304-307
Clinical Radiology

Original Paper
Fibrolipoma of the median nerve: MRI

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The MRI findings of two patients with fibrolipoma of median nerve are presented. A characteristic ‘cable-like’ appearance of the tumour was present on T1-weighted images. Unique imaging features of these cases included extention of the lesion into the radial digital nerve of the index finger in case 1 and extraneuronal extension of a exophytic fatty mass from the median nerve into the thenar eminence in case 2.

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