T1-Weighted MRI Characteristics of Pedal Osteomyelitis
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 185 (2), 386-393
- https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.185.2.01850386
Abstract
OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to better define the T1-weighted MRI characteristics of surgically proven pedal osteomyelitis. CONCLUSION. Decreased T1 marrow signal in a geographic medullary distribution with a confluent pattern and concordance with fat-suppressed T2- and T1-weighted postcontrast signal abnormality was present in 100% of the surgically proven cases of pedal osteomyelitis. None of the patients with decreased T1 marrow signal in a subcortical distribution or in a hazy, reticulated pattern had surgically proven osteomyelitis regardless of the fat-suppressed T2-weighted or postcontrast T1-weighted findings.Keywords
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