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Enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the first metatarsal after a bunionectomy
J B Chen1, R A Youngberg, R O Jones
1Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA.
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Unenhanced magnetic resonance imaging diagnoses osteonecrosis on the basis of loss of fatty marrow and the presence of edema. Enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, however, directly assesses marrow perfusion and allows earlier prediction of osteonecrosis after a bunionectomy.