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Figure 1. A 52-year-old female patient with spondyloarthropathy secondary to hypoparathyroidism. Short TI inversion-recovery (a) and contrast-enhanced fat-suppressed T1W (b) sagittal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveal discitis at L4-5 and osteitis in anterior superior corner of L4 (arrows). Coronal pelvic computed tomography (c) shows enthesophytes (arrows) and a coronal T1W fat-suppressed MRI (d) reveals signs of chronic sacroiliitis in sacroiliac joints. In lateral roentgenogram (e), calcaneal enthesophytes are present, and in axillary fat-suppressed T2W MRI (f), bone marrow edema (star) and paratendonitis (arrows) are observed. Gradient-weighted axial brain MRI section (g) demonstrates signal loss in basal ganglia due to mineral deposits.