Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Multiple Myeloma: Diagnostic and Clinical Implications

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) permits the detection of diffuse and focal bone marrow infiltration in the absence of osteopenia or focal osteolysis on standard metastatic bone surveys (MBSs). Patients and Methods Both baseline MBS and MRI were available in 611 of 668 myeloma patients who were treated uniformly with a tandem autologous transplantation–based protocol and were evaluated to determine their respective merits for disease staging, response assessment, and outcome prediction