Shoulder Joint Infections with Negative Culture Results: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes

Figure 2

Radiographic evaluation of a 70-year-old man with a positive culture. (a) Preoperative standard X-ray (anterior-posterior) view revealing metallic anchors with an osteolytic lesion on the greater tuberosity, (b) postoperative healed bone lesion, (c) MRI-T2-coronal view showing characteristics of osteomyelitis with a multilobulated bone marrow lesion, edematous change, and synovial thickening, and (d) MRI-T2-axial view showing fluid collection in the humeral head, diffuse synovial thickening, and two metallic anchors at the greater tuberosity.

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