What the Sports Medicine Physician Wants to Know from the Radiologist



Fig. 1.1
A 20-year-old male volleyball player with injury to the rectus femoris. Transverse ultrasound image shows “bull’s-eye lesion” (arrows), indicating an injury to the indirect tendon of the rectus femoris. In clinical practice this is often confused with “muscle stiffness”



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Fig. 1.2
A 17-year-old female track and field athlete with foot pain. Coronal T2-weighted fat-suppressed MRI shows stress fracture of the navicular bone (arrow). This is a common stress fracture in athletes usually with delayed presentation




References



Chan VO, Moran DE, Shine S et al (2013) Medial joint line bone bruising at MRI complicating acute ankle inversion injury: what is its clinical significance? Clin Radiol 68:e510–e523CrossRef

Dec 10, 2016 | Posted by in MUSCULOSKELETAL IMAGING | Comments Off on What the Sports Medicine Physician Wants to Know from the Radiologist

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