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Insights into Imaging
Fig. 4 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 4

From: Subchondral insufficiency fractures, subchondral insufficiency fractures with osteonecrosis, and other apparently spontaneous subchondral bone lesions of the knee—pathogenesis and diagnosis at imaging

Fig. 4

SIF in a patient with osteomalacia. T2-weighted MR image shows a low signal intensity band corresponding to a particularly thick trabecular fracture (arrow). The bone marrow of this portion of the condyle shows BME-like high signal intensity (asterisk). Note that the BME-like signal extends between the fracture and the bone-cartilage interface (arrowheads). That area of the subchondral bone is in continuity with the rest of the epiphyseal area

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