title: State-of-the-art ultrasonographic findings in lower extremity sports injuries.
abstract: Athletes sometimes experience overuse injuries. To diagnose these injuries, ultrasonography is often more useful than plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Ultrasonography can show both bone and soft tissue from various angles as needed, providing great detail in many cases. In conditions such as osteochondrosis or enthesopathies such as Osgood-Schlatter disease, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, bipartite patella, osteochondritis dissecans of the knee, painful accessory navicular,and jumper's knee, ultrasonography can reveal certain types of bony irregularities or neovascularization of the surrounding tissue. In patients of enthesopathy, ultrasonography can show the degenerative changes at the insertion of the tendon. Given its usefulness in treatment, ultrasonography is expected to become essential in the management of overuse injuries affecting the lower limb in athletes. J. Med. Invest. 62: 109-113, August, 2015.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, the University of Tokushima.
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mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D014463:Ultrasonography