Imaging of Orthopedic Sports Injuries

by Vanhoenacker, F. M.; Maas, M.; Gielen, J. L.

• ISBN13: 9783540260141
• ISBN10: 3540260145
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume provides an updated review of imaging abnormalities in orthopedic sports injuries. The first part of the book contains background information on relevant basic science and general imaging principles in sports traumatology. The second part comprises a topographic discussion of sports injuries. Each chapter highlights the merit of different imaging techniques, focused on a specific clinical problem. In the third part, natural history, monitoring and follow-up by imaging are discussed. This well-illustrated book will be of value for musculoskeletal radiologists, orthopedic surgeons, sports physicians and everyone else involved in sports medicine.

Author Biography

Vanhoenacker F.M., president of the musculoskeletal section of the Royal Belgian Society of Radiology, section editor musculoskeletal European Radiology, reviewer of different journals, incl. Skeletal Radiology, authors or co-author of more than 112 scientific papers.Gielen J. president VVS (Flemish society of sports medicine) Maas M., Vice president of the subcommittee on Sports Imaging of the European Society of Musculoskeletal radiology. Chair of the musculoskeletal section of the Dutch Society of Radiology. Vice-chair of the board of medical education University of Amsterdam. Radiology consultant for various national Sports societies. Reviewer of various journals

Table of Contents

The clinician's point of view	p. 3
Imaging techniques and procedures in sports injuries	p. 7
Muscle injuries	p. 15
Cartilage trauma	p. 41
Tendon and ligamentous trauma	p. 61
Bone marrow edema in sports injuries : general concept	p. 73
Overuse bone trauma and stress fractures	p. 85
Pseudotumors in sports	p. 103
Shoulder instability	p. 121
Rotator cuff and impingement	p. 149
Scapular, clavicular, acromioclavicular and sternoclavicular joint injuries	p. 169
Imaging of sports injuries of the elbow	p. 183
Imaging of wrist injuries	p. 201
Finger and hand	p. 225
Pelvis, hip and groin	p. 235
Sports-related meniscal injury	p. 265
Knee : ligaments	p. 283
Imaging of anterior-knee pain and maltracking	p. 307
Injuries of the ligaments and tendons in the ankle and foot	p. 321
Ankle and foot : osteochondral injuries	p. 337
Acute and overuse lesions of the leg and calf	p. 351
The spine in sports injuries : cervical spine	p. 377
The spine in sports injuries : thoracic and lumbar spine	p. 391
Maxillofacial injuries in sports	p. 401
Thoracic and abdominal wall injuries in sports injuries	p. 415
Special considerations in the immature skeleton	p. 433
The aging athlete	p. 449
Natural history and monitoring of fractures and microfractures	p. 469
Monitoring of muscle, tendon and ligament repair	p. 489
Sport-specific injuries	p. 505
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