title: Ultrasonic features of the Osgood-Schlatter lesion.
abstract: Ultrasound was used to compare the knees of 10 boys and four girls with typical clinical Osgood-Schlatter lesions with 27 symptomless knees. The normal sonographic changes of the tibial tubercle with advancing age are described. In all children with Osgood-Schlatter lesions, the distal patellar tendon thickened and became more echogenic than normal tendons, and an anechoic zone of edema was seen anterior to the tibial tuberosity. Four knees disclosed a thin shell-like elevated fragment of the tibial tuberosity seen as an echogenic surface. In 12 knees, single or multiple fragments of the tibial tuberosity were easily shown. Ultrasound is proposed as a simple, fast, and reliable method for the diagnosis of the Osgood-Schlatter lesion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lanning
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Heikkinen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D008297:Male; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011859:Radiography; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000592:standards*