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29M hallux blunt trauma 2.5 yrs ago, pain, suspect osteochondral defect, MRI, Please Help

[image: 1.jpg] [image: 2.jpg] [image: 3.jpg] There is no chondral / osteochondral defect. There is obvious hallux valgus and bunion. The arrow points to the accessory tibial sesamoid ligament…do you think it is chronically torn? Is that the remnant next to the tibial sesamoid? I am not sure if the MCL/capsular thickening is simply due

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glenoid bare area?

Colleagues, What are your thoughts on this shoulder MRI finding? 47yr female with mild shoulder pain; mild OA of AC joint and mild SASD bursitis on imaging; and this finding— Do you think this focal chondral thinned zone is a Bare area of the Glenoid, just posterior and not central? Or is it a very

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(OCAD) Atlanto-axial instability, rheumatoid changes? (cervical MRI, M83)

Hi all, this is an 83 year old male patient with nuchal pain and restricted ROM for several months already. Denies trauma. There are changes at the atlanto-axial joints suggesting chronic instability (unfortunately poorly imaged due to focus on the usual degenerative changes). Is that “pannus” at the odontoid process? Could all these changes be

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