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PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU - Hunt, Matthew A.
AU - Bagó, Attila G.
AU - Neuwelt, Edward A.
TI - Single-Dose Contrast Agent for Intraoperative MR Imaging of Intrinsic Brain Tumors by Using Ferumoxtran-10
DP - 2005 May 01
TA - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG - 1084--1088
VI - 26
IP - 5
4099 - http://www.ajnr.org/content/26/5/1084.short
4100 - http://www.ajnr.org/content/26/5/1084.full
SO - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2005 May 01; 26
AB - BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Intraoperative MR imaging (IMRI) has advantages over conventional framed and frameless techniques. IMRI, however, also has some drawbacks, especially related to interpretation of gadolinium-enhanced intraoperative imaging resulting from surgically induced blood brain barrier injury, vascular changes, and hemorrhage. Ultra-small superparamagnetic iron particles like ferumoxtran-10 have a long plasma half-life and are trapped by reactive cells within the tumor. These trapped particles provide a method to demonstrate enhancing lesions without the artifact of repeat gadolinium administration in the face of blood brain barrier and vascular injury.METHODS: We present a review of the literature and the cases of two patients who underwent surgery in which IMRI with ferumoxtran-10 was used.RESULTS: Ultra-small superparamagnetic iron particles represent a method to demonstrate enhancing intrinsic brain tumors without the drawbacks of intraoperative gadolinium enhancement. These lesions appear even on low-field strength IMRI. Ferumoxtran-10, administered preoperatively, provides a stable imaging marker, even after surgical manipulation of the brain.CONCLUSION: Fermumoxtran-10 provides a way to lessen artifactual enhancement during IMRI related to the administration of gadolinium.