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Fig. 4 | Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Fig. 4

From: Role of diffusion-weighted MRI in diagnosis and post therapeutic follow-up of colorectal cancer

Fig. 4

Forty-year-old male presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. Colonoscopy and biopsy revealed transverse colon well-differentiated adenocarcinoma. Large lobulated circumferential soft tissue mass was seen infiltrating the right side of the transverse colon reaching the serosa with minimal extension into the surrounding fat. It displayed high to intermediate signal in T2WI (A) and low signal in T1WI (B), with heterogeneous enhancement in post contrast images (C). The lesion appeared bright in DWIs (D) and turned dark in the ADC map (E), with ADC value 1.1 × 10−3 mm2/s, indicating restricted diffusion

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