Gadolinium-enhanced inversion-recovery MR imaging enabled detection of more pyelonephritic lesions than did renal cortical scintigraphy and had superior interobserver agreement.

Postmortem radiography provides important additional information regarding the extent and chronicity of extremity trauma that may not be documented at autopsy. This finding supports the routine use of radiography in cases of suspected child abuse. Normal findings on postmortem skeletal radiography may help to distinguish cases of natural, accidental, and undetermined causes of death from those of abuse, aiding in the proper handling of these cases by medical and law enforcement personnel.

Contrast-enhanced fast multiplanar IR imaging is a sensitive and specific test for detection of experimental pyelonephritis in this piglet model.

The negative enhancement of normal renal tissue seen in intermediate-weighted fast inversion-recovery MR imaging is caused by T2 shortening at high gadolinium concentrations. Thus, gadolinium-enhanced T2-weighted fast spin-echo imaging also is expected to show negative enhancement and may prove to be a superior sequence for MR imaging of pyelonephritis. Further clinical investigation is warranted.

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