Bursitis
Pseudotumoural
soft tissue lesions of the foot and ankle: a pictorial review. Adventitious bursitis. A 54-year-old patient with a painful swelling located plantar to the first metatarsophalangeal joint. Short-axis fat-suppressed T2-WI (a), T1-WI (b) and fat-suppressed contrast-enhanced T1-WI (c): fluid collection plantar-medial to the first metatarsal head (long arrow) of high SI on T2-WI, and low SI on T1-WI, corresponding to a fluid-filled cavity. There is marked rim enhancement (arrowheads)
Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa, a synovial membrane-lined space, present overlying a number of joints. The inflammation may be acute or chronic, in the later case calcification may be apparent on plain radiographs. MRI best illustrates the bursa and related pathology.
Specific pathological types
Location specific types
- scapulothoracic joint
- shoulder
- elbow
- hip
- knee
- ankle
- feet
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