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45-Year-Old Woman With Longstanding Knee Pain

Images taken 7 months apart show subtle densities of the left knee that has been causing pain. The woman also has subluxation of the fingers, without erosion.

These images, taken 7 months apart, show the left knee that has been causing a 45-year-old woman to endure substantial pain for a very long time.

The one at left shows subtle densities that are more conspicuous on the later image, at right, with a serpiginous, well defined, sclerotic border.

Hand radiographs show ulnar subluxation of the metacarpophalaneal joints, without erosion.

What would you look for on MRI? What diagnosis would you predict?

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