ABSTRACT
This term likens the long bone radiographic appearance of alternating vertical dense and lucent metaphyseal striations (Figure 1), caused by rubella infection, to the ‘ridges’ (actually phloem and xylem channels) in a celery stalk (Figure 2). A rubella epidemic in the United States, in the spring and summer of 1964, generated many scientific papers on the clinical and roentgenologic manifestations of rubella embryopathy which were foremost in the minds and practices of many physicians at that time. ‘Alternating radiolucent and dense longitudinal metaphyseal striations produce a ‘celery stick’ appearance.’ Reprinted from Williams and Carey’. Rubella embryopathy: roentgenologic features. <italic>Am. J. Roentgenol.,</italic> 1966, 97, 92–9, with the permission of the ARRS https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003076568/34c29fd5-5662-4e8f-b58c-badd7fa5d724/content/fig14_1_B.jpg"/> A stick of celery https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003076568/34c29fd5-5662-4e8f-b58c-badd7fa5d724/content/fig14_2_B.jpg"/>
