Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) for cancer screening in asymptomatic subjects of the general population: review and recommendations

Table 4 Suspicious malignant cancers detected by WB-MRI in the published studies

Author	Head			Neck			Chest			Abdomen			Pelvis			Lower limbs	Spine			MRI mammography
*Goehde*³⁷	1	NC	brain suspicious lesion				1	NC	lung suspicious lesion	1	H	renal cell carcinoma
*Baumgart*³⁸							2	H	bronchial adenocarcinoma	5	H	renal cell carcinomas
Lo⁴¹				1	H	thyroid follicular carcinoma	1	H	bronchial adenocarcinoma	1	H	renal cell carcinoma
										1	H	neuronedocrine tumor
Takahara⁴²							1	H	lung cancer
*Hegenscheid*⁴³	1	NC	malignant head lesion	3	NC	malignant neck lesions				21	NC	malignant urinary tract lesions	17	NC	female genital malignant lesions		2	NA	malignant vertebral lesions	3	NA	malignant lesions
										7	NC	malignant abdominal organs lesions					8	NA	metastases (site not specified)
*Cieszanowski*⁴⁴	1	H	glioma				1	H	bronchial adenocarcinoma	2	H	renal cell carcinomas	1	H	ovarian tumor
							1	H	metastases				1	H	testicular tumor
*Tarnoki*⁴⁵													1	NC	pararectal suspicious lesion
*Ulus*⁴⁶										1	H	renal cell carcinoma
										1	H	adrenal carcinoma
										1	H	pancreatic cystadenoma
*Saya*⁴⁷
*Lee*⁴⁸				1	I	Tongue cancer				3	NC	suspicious renal lesions
										1	I	renal cell carcinoma
Hou⁴⁰	1	I	optic nerve glioma	2	H	papillary thyroid carcinoma	2	H	lymphoma	5	H	renal cell carcinomas	6	H	prostate cancers
							1	H	thymoma	1	H	low-grade intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm	2	H	urinary bladder carcinomas
Total	4			6			10			51			28			0	10			3

H = histologically confirmed, I = confirmed by further imaging, NC = non confirmed, NA = not investigated

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