Tumoral hemorrhage in a 17-year-old male adolescent with thalamic glioma.
(a) Axial fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery MR image (Philips)
(7000/140/2300 [TR msec/TE msec/inversion time msec]; flip angle, 90°;
bandwidth, 220 Hz/pixel; voxel size, 0.75 × 0.81 × 5 mm; FOV, 220
× 220 mm) shows a hyperintense tumor in the right thalamus, with a hypointense
area of hemorrhage (arrow). (b) Axial T2*-weighted fast GRE MR
image (T2 FFE; Philips) (665/23; flip angle, 18°; bandwidth, 108.6 Hz/pixel;
voxel size, 0.9 × 1.1 × 5.0 mm; FOV, 220 × 192 mm)
shows blooming of the area of hemorrhage (arrow) in the tumor. T2*-weighted
sequences should always be included in brain tumor imaging to detect tumoral bleeding.