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To date, an evaluation of synthetic CT in pediatric patients with rare musculoskeletal diseases has been lacking. In this case series, the capability of synthetic CT to identify musculoskeletal lesions accurately in 2 rare disease patients is revealed. In Case 1, synthetic CT, in agreement with routine CT, identified an intraosseous lesion in the right femoral neck in a 16-year-old female with fibrous dysplasia, whereas standard-of-care MRIs additionally revealed mild surrounding edema-like bone marrow signal. For Case 2, synthetic CT applied to a 12-year-old female with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva revealed heterotopic ossification present along the cervical spine that had caused the fusion of multiple vertebrae. 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