Bone Marrow Edema (BME) is a recently recognized entity. MRI has provided
to be most powerful tool to asses BME, as the conventional imaging technique are unable to
detect trabecular injuries. \u201cBone bruising\u201d describes the post-traumatic bone marrow changes
demonstrated on MRI from a combination of haemorrhage, edema and microtrabecular
fractures, described for the first time in the human knee in 1988. Bone bruise is a potentially
important cause of orthopaedic pathology both in human and veterinary medicine, especially in
sport horses. The term \u201cbruise\u201d indicates the traumatic origin of bone marrow changes. BME is
defined as a region of hypointensity in T1 weighted sequences and hyperintensity in T2 and
STIR sequences. Of 20 lame horses underwent MRI, six were included in the study, with pain
localized at the fetlock region (5 cases) or hoof pain (1 case)
