[Magnetic resonance imaging in lesions of the plantar aponeurosis].
Exploration of sporting injures to plantar aponeurosis (PA) has up to now been based mainly on clinical examination, from which the diagnosis was established. Imaging technics such as standard radiography and ultrasound scanning have limitations allowing diagnosis to be made usually only by elimination, the lesion being very rarely visualized directly. Ten patients with hyperalgic lesion of plantar arch and functional impotence were explored by MR imaging, and in all cases this examination provided superior data confirmed at operation. The examination is painless and little invasive and can be carried out during the acute phase. The plantar aponeurosis is visualized directly between the muscle mass of the plantar arch and the fatty cushion. All three spatial planes can be investigated, most interesting data being obtained from the sagittal (in the PA axis) and frontal (comparative) planes.
Roger
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Service de Neuroradiologie CNO XV.XX, Paris.
Christel
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Poux
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Saillant
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Cabanis
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D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005528:Foot / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology
Imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) des lésions de l'aponévrose plantaire.