Dynamic Chiropractic, January 15th, 2008
Bone marrow edema (BME) is a nonspecific finding associated with several different entities, including transient osteoporosis of the hip, transient bone-marrow edema syndrome, osteonecrosis, trauma, infection and infiltrative neoplasm. The BME pattern seen with MR consists of decreased T1-weighted and increased T2-weighted signal in the bone marrow and is consistent with increased free water or edema within normal fatty bone marrow.
This finding can be associated with several disease processes. Trauma, infection and neoplasm have clinical findings that allow us to differentiate them. However,...
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