, Jan L. M. A. Gielen2, 3, 4 and Mario Maas1 (1) Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2) Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital, Wilrijkstraat 10, B2650 Edegem, Belgium (3) Department…
Fig. 40.1 Radiographic ossification and fusion of the tibial tuberosity, lateral radiographs of four different male individuals. (a) Eight-year-old boy, no ossification is detected at the tibial tuberosity (arrows). (b)…
Acute injury Overuse injury Muscle contusion Fatigue fracture Ligament sprain Spondylosis Joint sprain Spondylolisthesis Traditionally, three-phase bone scintigraphy is commonly exploited in the evaluation of athletes with traumatic pain. The…
Anatomical organ Comments Pelvis (Kowal 1980; Angus and McBryd 1976) Wide pelvis Appears to contribute to the increased risk of injury to the hip and the outer aspect of the…
Common causes Medial tibial stress syndrome Stress fracture Compartment syndrome Rare causes Muscle overuse: strain, rhabdomyolysis Trauma: interosseous membrane, syndesmosis Osteomyelitis Benign and malignant tumors Metabolic insufficiency fractures 33.2 Medial…
Fig. 11.1 A young girl that fell off her horse. Plain film (a), CT (b), and MR with sagittal T1–WI (c), T2–WI (d), and STIR (e). This 17-year-old girl suffered…
Fig. 36.1 This patient complained of rotational instability of his ankle joint after recurrent ankle sprains in sports. SPECT/CT and MRI both showed a large OCL of the medial talar…
Fig. 5.1 Minimal fracture line (white arrow) visible in the ventral cortex of the tibia on conventional radiography of a 26-year-old female The chronological findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),…
Fig. 3.1 Image of a cyclotron, a particle accelerator in which charged particles accelerate from the centre outward, along a spiral path. These particles are held within an exact course…
Clinical condition Incidence per year References Prevalence References Distal biceps tendon pathology 1.2 per 100,000 Safran and Graham (2002) – Triceps tendon ruptures <1 % Anzel et al. (1959) >70…
