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Diffuse enlargement of the Achilles tendon with speckled appearance (T2 MRI)

Axial fat-saturated T2-weighted MRI of the left ankle shows diffuse enlargement of the Achilles tendon (arrows) with the characteristic speckled appearance (dotted arrows). (Source: Koroglu M, Karakaplan M, Gündüz E, et al. Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis patients with late diagnosed in single orthopedic clinic: two novel variants in the CYP27A1 gene. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2024;19[1]:53. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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