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.
Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
M
M
Matsuo
S
S
Ehara
Y
Y
Tamakawa
E
E
Chida
J
J
Nishida
T
T
Sugai
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