Interventional Radiology - Technical Note

MRI-guided fiducial marker implantation as a method of tagging an ultrasound- and non-enhanced CT-invisible liver tumor before thermal ablation

10.5152/dir.2022.21820

  • Grzegorz Rosiak
  • Krzysztof Milczarek
  • Dariusz Konecki
  • Dennis Bielecki
  • Olgierd Rowinski

Received Date: 01.08.2021 Accepted Date: 13.10.2021 Diagn Interv Radiol 2022;28(6):627-629

Some liver tumors are not visible on ultrasound or non-enhanced CT (NECT) which are main modalities used in image-guided ablations. This is a report of MR-guided implantation of fiducial marker to tag a neuroendocrine tumor metastasis in a patient with renal insufficiency precluding the use of contrast – enhanced CT during ablation. The marker was well visible on NECT which allowed for precise needle placement and complete ablation which was confirmed in 12-months follow-up.