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Fig. 17 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 17

From: Fasciae of the musculoskeletal system: normal anatomy and MR patterns of involvement in autoimmune diseases

Fig. 17

a Anterior and posterior whole-body bone scintigraphy, (b) axial and (c) coronal STIR images of the thighs of a 55-year-old female with pulmonary neoplasm and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. Bone scintigraphy demonstrates symmetric linear increased uptake of tracer along the diaphysis and metaphysis of the long bones (arrowheads). MRI confirms periostitis with thickening and fluid signal intensity of the periosteum of the left femur and to a lesser degree of the right femur (arrows)

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