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Brain tumor location has prognostic implications so these authors explored whether location also correlated with p53 status in 182 patients. Tumors occurring in the left medial temporal and right anterior temporal lobes were associated with high expression of mutant p53 and had significantly worse progression-free survival.

Double inversion recovery was used to study 30 patients with suspected or established MS and images were blindly evaluated by 2 neuroradiologists. DIR detected 28% more lesions than T2-weighted images with higher contrast-to-noise ratios leading to increased rating in lesion visibility. The authors concluded that the DIR sequence allowed better detection of lesions in MS and related inflammatory diseases of the cervical spinal cord compared with conventional T2WI.