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Bone Marrow Edema Pattern

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The regional bone marrow pattern, as already discussed in Chap. 4, is further divided into hyperintense and hypointense regional bone marrow pattern. The former is related to prior radiation therapy and is discussed in Chap. 8. The latter is due to bone marrow edema of various causes. Marrow edema associated with tumors and inflammatory/infectious diseases is beyond the scope of this book. Instead, in this chapter we will focus on the transient bone marrow edema syndrome which often presents a diagnostic challenge as it may lack characteristic associated findings suggestive of a specific diagnosis.

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Moulopoulos, L.A., Koutoulidis, V. (2015). Bone Marrow Edema Pattern. In: Bone Marrow MRI. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5316-8_7

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