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RID35512 salt-and-pepper sign

synonym

salt-and-pepper pattern

definition

A speckled appearance of tissue, typically described on MRI. Used to describe some highly vascular tumors which contain foci of hemorrhage, typically a paraganglioma. The appearance is on on T1-weighted sequences, and is made up of punctate regions of hyperintensity (salt) and small flow voids (pepper).

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