candlestick appearance
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candlestick appearance
Bone imaging A sharply marginated 'cut-off' of the terminal phalanges with a central depression, seen in burns, DM, gout, leprosy, malabsorption, vasoocclusive disease, porphyria, psoriasis, Raynaud's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma. Cf Penciling.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.