Endometriose no nervo ciático: o papel dos exames de imagem no diagnóstico
This review highlights magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a highly specific diagnostic tool for sciatic nerve endometriosis, detecting characteristic signal abnormalities and aiding differential diagnosis.
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This integrative review examined the diagnostic role of imaging tests (ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging) for rare cases of endometriosis involving the sciatic nerve in women of reproductive age, drawing on case reports, systematic reviews, and pictorial reviews published from 1995 to 2021 across MEDLINE/PubMed, BvS, and Scielo. Across 11 included articles, MRI showed higher specificity than ultrasonography and was also used to support differential diagnosis among other nervous-system pathologies. The review reported that MRI findings commonly included hyperintensity with peripheral halos of hypointensity on T1 and T2 sequences, evaluated in relation to menstrual-cycle timing given the disease’s menstrual association. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on endometriosis affecting the sciatic nerve and the imaging findings used for diagnosis.
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