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Joint effusion on US. Long-axis US image in an adult patient, with clinical concern for joint effusion, demonstrates joint fluid pooling in the anterior joint recess (arrows). The presence o fluid outlines the cartilage (arrowhead), making it more conspicuous (cartilage conspicuity sign)
