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BACKGROUND: Muscle injuries are common in football. Imaging diagnostics have a major role in establishing a diagnosis. The main diagnostic procedures are MRI and ultrasound. Both diagnostics have advantages and disadvantages, which should be balanced against each other. NEW ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES: The role of MRI as the gold standard is increasingly being replaced by high-resolution ultrasound techniques, and MRI imaging is not always useful. To detect complications in the early stages it is advised to perform regular ultrasound-imaging check-ups. The healing process can be monitored, and it offers additional options for ultrasound-guided interventions such as hematoma punctures and targeted infiltrations. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES: However, ultrasound imaging is highly user dependent. Experienced operators can eliminate this disadvantage, which makes ultrasound a superior imaging system in many areas, especially for dynamic examinations. Nevertheless, MRI imaging remains a necessary imaging method in certain areas.
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Athletic Injuries , Muscle, Skeletal , Ultrasonography , Humans , Athletic Injuries/diagnostic imaging , Athletic Injuries/therapy , Image Enhancement/methods , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Muscle, Skeletal/injuries , Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging , Ultrasonography/methodsABSTRACT
CME-Sonography 105: Ultrasound in Sports Injuries Abstract. Muscle injuries are frequent in athletes and in the general population. For therapy and prognosis, it is important to understand the total extent of the injury and to be aware of possible complications. In most cases ultrasound is a useful tool for diagnostics of muscle injuries. However, muscle ultrasound is not as common as joint ultrasound; this article discusses the possibilities of high-resolution dynamic ultrasound in diagnostics and its limitations.
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Athletic Injuries , Athletes , Athletic Injuries/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Muscles , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
We report the case of a 81 year old women presenting with fever and back pain. Infectious spondylodiscitis was first supposed due to the imaging of the spine although no pathogenic agent could be proved. Antibiotic therapy was initiated. Because of the persistence of the symptoms biopsy was repeated, this time done by a surgeon. Eventually spinal gout was diagnosed. Symptomatic therapy alone removed the discomfort.