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  • Title: Deferoxamine-induced bone dysplasia in the distal femur and patella of pediatric patients and young adults: MR imaging appearance.
    Author: Chan Y, Li C, Chu WC, Pang L, Cheng JC, Chik KW.
    Journal: AJR Am J Roentgenol; 2000 Dec; 175(6):1561-6. PubMed ID: 11090375.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: We investigated the MR imaging appearance of deferoxamine-induced bone dysplasia in the distal femur and patella in patients with thalassemia major. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-five patients with homozygous ss-thalassemia major who were undergoing regular transfusions and chelation therapy underwent coronal T1-weighted MR imaging of the femur, including the femoral head and the distal femoral epiphysis. Additional coronal fat-saturated dual-echo and sagittal T1-weighted images of the distal femur and patella were obtained in 11 patients who were suspected of having distal femoral lesions on the basis of the coronal T1-weighted images of the entire femur. RESULTS: No dysplastic change was detected in the proximal femur on coronal T1-weighted images. In 22 distal femurs of 11 patients, the following abnormalities were detected on MR imaging: blurred physeal-metaphyseal junction (n = 22), distal metaphyseal areas of hyperintensity (n = 21), physeal widening (n = 18), metadiaphyseal lesions (n = 11), epiphyseal lesions (n = 10), and patellar lesions (n = 2). Physeal widening and distal metaphyseal hyperintense areas were all more pronounced peripherally. Of the 21 distal metaphyseal hyperintensities, lateral abnormalities were larger than medial abnormalities in 16. Of the 18 distal femurs in which physeal widening was detected, the lateral widening was more marked than the medial widening in 12. Patients with MR imaging evidence of bone dysplasia have a significantly (p = 0.003) greater height reduction than patients without such evidence of bone dysplasia. CONCLUSION: Deferoxamine-induced bone dysplasia in the distal femur and patella is represented by a spectrum of morphologic changes in the epiphysis, physis, metaphysis, and metadiaphysis on MR imaging.
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