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ITB ILIOTIBIAL BAND FRICTION SYNDROME MRI: IS IT A BURSA OR A RECESS?

ITB ILIOTIBIAL BAND FRICTION SYNDROME MRI

With fluid deep to the ITB we have 2 possibilities.
    • It’s a recess of the suprapatellar bursa or,
    • It’s an ITB bursa (an adventitial bursa which develops due to friction).

  • ITB BURSA will NOT communicate with the suprapatellar recess or supraptellar bursa.
  • SUPRAPATELLAR RECESS will communicate with the joint via the suprapatellar bursa.

  • Follow the axial scans from superior to inferior.
  • See if you can spot any communication between the the fluid and the suprapatellar bursa/recess.
  • If you can’t see any communication it’s an ITB bursa.

  • You can confuse a normal supra patellar recess with an ITB bursa.
  • But the recess will communicate with the joint and the ITB bursa won’t.
  • On axial scans look for communication between joint/ recess and the fluid collection.

ITBILIOTIBIAL BAND FRICTION SYNDROME BURSA OR RECESS ON MRI?

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