Imaging of sports-related muscle injuries

Muscle derangements in athletes have a wide variety of causes, treatments, and prognoses. Given that the cause and severity of sports-related injuries may be difficult to determine clinically in some cases, MR imaging is utilized increasingly to evaluate muscle injuries in athletes. After reviewing...

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Published inThe Radiologic clinics of North America Vol. 40; no. 2; p. 333
Main Authors Boutin, Robert D, Fritz, Russell C, Steinbach, Lynne S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.03.2002
Subjects
Athletic Injuries - diagnosis
Compartment Syndromes - diagnosis
Compartment Syndromes - physiopathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Hematoma - diagnosis
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Muscle, Skeletal - injuries
Sprains and Strains - diagnosis
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Summary:Muscle derangements in athletes have a wide variety of causes, treatments, and prognoses. Given that the cause and severity of sports-related injuries may be difficult to determine clinically in some cases, MR imaging is utilized increasingly to evaluate muscle injuries in athletes. After reviewing useful MR imaging techniques, this article focuses on MR imaging of the most common causes of muscle pain and disability in athletes, including myotendinous strain, delayed onset muscle soreness, muscle contusion, myositis ossificans, muscle laceration, muscle herniation, and compartment syndrome. The differential diagnosis of various signal intensity abnormalities in muscle also is reviewed.
ISSN:0033-8389
DOI:10.1016/s0033-8389(02)00008-8