Fracture MRI Tips on Where to look, What to Look For and How to Report
SMALL FRACTURES: WHAT TO LOOK FOR ON MRI Good evening today’s Tuesday Tip is on how to find a small fractures on MR. These can be difficult to visualize as the fragment may be too small to confidently see. However you can use the absence of the cortical margin as a clue to the presence …
What does periosteal change secondary to trauma look like on MRI? There are a number of appearances of periosteal reaction on MRI secondary to trauma that we can see and report. The Histology…Yes Histology!: It helps to have a simple understanding of the histology of the periosteum and the following is from a nice review …
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When the clinical examination and referral notes are inadequate ( Back Pain F.I.) the cause of the pain may well be sacral rather than lumbar. On a standard lumbar spine MRI with axial and sagittal scans, the sacrum is not specifically imaged, but sacral fractures can be a source of back pain. There are 2 …
Segond Fractures are fractures of the lateral tibial plateau often associated with ACL tears. Where do the Occur? Lateral tibial plateau, just posterior to the attachment of the ilio tibial band. Is it an avulsion fracture of the ITB? It’s thought to be related to the tibial insertion of the anterolateral ligament. However …
