title: Acute and chronic avulsive injuries.
abstract: Avulsive injuries are common traumatic lesions, especially in young athletes. They can be acute, resulting from excessive tensile forces, or chronic, due to overuse. Avulsion injuries can resemble osteomyelitis or neoplasm and, therefore, familiarity with the radiographic patterns as well as the different muscle attachments is helpful for the clinician to arrive at the correct diagnosis. This article discusses acute and chronic avulsive injuries in the pelvis, knee, elbow, shoulder, and foot.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA.
authors.forename: G Y
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: el-Khoury
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kathol
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018409:Foot Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007596:Joints / Q000293:injuries*; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000293:injuries; D011859:Radiography; D000070599:Shoulder Injuries; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D000092464:Elbow Injuries