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MR findings of synovial disease in children and young adults: Part 1

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Synovial diseases in children can be classified into normal structures as potential sources of pathology (synovial folds: plicae, infrapatellar fat pad clefts); noninfectious synovial proliferation (juvenile idiopathic arthritis, hemophilic arthropathy, lipoma arborescens, synovial osteochondromatosis, pigmented villonodular synovitis, reactive synovitis), and infectious synovial proliferation, deposition disease, vascular malformations, malignancy (including metastasis) and intra-articular/periarticular cysts and cyst-like structures (ganglia). Familiarity with characteristic MR imaging findings of synovial diseases in children and young adults will enable a more confident diagnosis for earlier intervention and directed therapy. The first part of this paper will cover potential pathology of normal synovial structures as well as noninfectious synovial proliferation.

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Kim, H.K., Zbojniewicz, A.M., Merrow, A.C. et al. MR findings of synovial disease in children and young adults: Part 1. Pediatr Radiol 41, 495–511 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-011-1971-0

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