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What is heterogeneous marrow signal within the axial skeleton mean on an mri of the right hip mean. i am a women age 60?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

MRi: Often a normal finding, but in one study 6 percent of people with this finding on MRI had a cancer of some type. Worth talking with your doctor about.

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Answered 7/3/2017

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