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Fig. 3A. —74-year-old woman with surgically confirmed focal full-thickness tear in right abductor tendon cuff with trochanteric (subgluteus maximus) bursitis. Coronal T2-weighted fast spin-echo image (TR/TE, 3,879/102) of hips (obtained at 0.2 T with postprocessing) reveals gluteus medius (me) and gluteus minimus (mi) muscles, elongated and distally discontinuous right gluteus medius tendon (solid arrow), and sheet of high signal intensity outlining lateral and superior margins of greater trochanter (pattern 2) (open arrow). In general, visualization of pattern 2 T2 hyperintensity superior to greater trochanter alone is sufficient to diagnose tear.