Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue inside large bones like the hip and thigh bones. It develops the body's red blood cells that carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight infections ...

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Because it has the advantage of imaging the entire bone marrow compartment (unlike the situation with biopsy on aspiration), MR allows a better understanding of the distribution of skeletal disease.