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Fig. 2A. —72-year-old woman with surgically proven focal full-thickness tear of abductor tendon cuff. Coronal STIR image (TR/TE, 2,000/30; inversion time, 160 msec) of left hip reveals 2-cm pocket of high signal intensity superior to greater trochanter (pattern 1) in subgluteus medius bursa (asterisk) located in intermuscular fat (f) between gluteus medius (me) and gluteus minimus (mi) tendons. Tendon tear itself is not directly visualized.