Bile Duct Diseases/diagnosis ; Bile Duct Diseases/etiology* ; Cholelithiasis/complications* ; Cholelithiasis/diagnosis ; Constriction, Pathologic/etiology ; Gallbladder/pathology ; Hepatic Duct, Common* ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Syndrome
Keywords
Bile ducts ; calculi bile ducts ; MR Bile ducts ; stenosis or obstruction
Abstract
We have reported a case of Mirizzi syndrome preoperatively diagnosed using MR cholangiopancreatography. MRCP and T2-weighted image using a single-shot fast spin-echo sequence accurately depicted all components of Mirizzi syndrome, including impacted stone in the neck of the gallbladder compressing the common hepatic duct and wall-thickening of the gallbladder without any evidence of malignancy. The combination of MRCP and T2-weighted image can be counted on to replace conventional modalities of diagnosing Mirizzi syndrome without any loss of diagnostic accuracy