title: [High frequency sonography in the detection of finger injuries in sport climbing].
abstract: Sport climbing shows an increasing popularity, including even school sport activity on high climbing levels. Climbing related injuries are predominantly located in fingers/ hands ("climber's finger"), and can present as annular pulley rupture or more common as overuse injury. Beside clinical examination imaging modalities such as MRI and high frequency sonography have shown to allow for detection of climbing related injuries. High frequency sonography enables for exact differential diagnosis of climbing related finger/hand injuries and therefore plays a central role in adequate therapeutic management.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Radiodiagnostik, Radiologie II, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck. andrea.klauser@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klauser
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gabl
authors.forename: Vinzenz
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Smekal
authors.forename: Dieter Zur
authors.initials: DZ
authors.lastname: Nedden
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005384:Finger Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D009051:Mountaineering / Q000293:injuries*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*