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Christopher Collins

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Change in knee cartilage T2 at MR imaging after running: a feasibility study.

All participants provided informed consent to participate in this study, which was approved by the institutional review board of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility of cartilage T2 mapping in the evaluation of response of femoral and tibial cartilage to running exercise. Quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) T2 maps of weight-bearing femoral and tibial articular cartilage were obtained in seven young healthy men before and immediately after 30 minutes of running by using a 3.0-T MR imager. There was no statistically significant change in T2 profiles of tibial cartilage. There was a statistically significant decrease in T2 of the superficial 40% of weight-bearing femoral cartilage after exercise. These in vivo observations agree well with published ex vivo results and support the hypothesis that cartilage compression results in greater anisotropy of superficial collagen fibers.

Adult↗

Accessory spleniculi in the right hemithorax.

Accessory spleniculi are present in the thoracic cavity without a history of trauma due to anomalies in the development of spleen. We report the case of a 62-year-old woman with hereditary spherocytosis and previous splenectomy with an incidental mass on a chest radiograph and an indeterminate diagnosis on needle biopsy. The probable sequence of embryological events that may explain the anatomic presence of splenic tissue in the thorax is discussed.

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