Radiologic Mimics of Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis: A Pictorial Essay

Figure 12

Coronal forefoot T1 (a) and STIR (b) sequence of a 45-year-old female with Raynaud phenomenon. There is an altered marrow signal (A dotted arrow) with oedema signal (b dotted arrow) in the distal phalanges involving noncontiguous bone. There is an impression of early tuft resorption involving the great toe (arrow), with an ill-defined cortex.

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