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Radiology, Vol 180, 809-812, Copyright © 1991 by Radiological Society of North America

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Epiphyseal marrow in infancy: MR imaging

D Jaramillo, T Laor, FA Hoffer, DJ Zaleske, RH Cleveland, BR Buchbinder and TK Egglin
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.

Hypointense epiphyseal marrow on T1-weighted magnetic resonance images often suggests disease. To determine whether hypointense marrow sometimes represents normal red marrow in a recently ossified epiphyseal center, the authors studied 38 infants without known marrow disease. Patients with hypointense epiphyseal marrow on T1-weighted images were younger (3.9 months +/- 3.2) than those with hyperintense marrow (9.6 months +/- 3.9) (P less than .001). T1-weighted imaging and histologic correlation were also performed in animals. The signal was hypointense and the marrow was red in the epiphyseal centers of all newborn animals, while all 6-week-old animals had hyperintense signal and yellow marrow. The authors conclude that hypointense marrow on T1- weighted images represents normal red marrow in a recently formed ossification center in newborn rabbits and lambs, and the same is probably true in humans. Epiphyseal marrow becomes hyperintense within a few months of development of the secondary center of ossification.


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