Muscular sarcoidosis.
A 57-year-old woman with sarcoid nodules in muscles of the lower leg was reported. A star-shaped low signal intensity in the lesion on MR imaging, supposedly corresponding to fibrous scar, appears characteristic of this condition, although its specificity is still uncertain.
Matsuo
M
M
Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
Ehara
S
S
Tamakawa
Y
Y
Chida
E
E
Nishida
J
J
Sugai
T
T
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed