The drooping moustache sign refers to the appearance caused on axial pelvic MR images by posterior prolapse of the fat in the retropubic space, akin to the drooping corners of a moustache, due to loss of integrity of the urethral suspensory ligaments and level 3 endopelvic fascia.
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