title: MR imaging in congenital and acquired disorders of the pediatric upper extremity.
abstract: Various congenital and acquired disorders can affect the upper extremity in pediatric and adolescent patients. MR imaging can provide unique anatomic and diagnostic information in the evaluation of many of these disorders, including inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, and arthritic conditions. This article rounds out the issue on pediatric musculoskeletal MR imaging. It focuses on the evaluation of more common congenital disorders, and mainly sports-related injuries of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist in children. MR imaging can be more challenging in diagnosis of some of these disorders. Features of overuse injuries in skeletally immature athletes are a unifying theme throughout the article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue MLC 5031, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA. kathleen.emery@cchmc.org
authors.forename: Kathleen H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Emery
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001168:Arthritis / Q000175:diagnosis; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D001917:Brachial Plexus / Q000293:injuries; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003287:Contrast Media; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D034941:Upper Extremity; D038062:Upper Extremity Deformities, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media