Description

The Vesical Imaging Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) Score can be used to describe the growth of a tumor in the urinary bladder.


Exam: multiparametric MRI of the urinary bladder

 

Image Findings

VI-RADS

exophytic growth with preservation of inner layer AND < 1 cm in diameter

1

exophytic or sessile growth with preservation of inner layer AND > 1 cm in diameter

2

through inner layer without clear invasion into muscularis propria

3

extension into the muscularis propria

4

extension into perivesical fat

5

 

where:

• The inner layer is urothelium and lamina propria.


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