title: Ultrasound-guided procedures to treat sport-related muscle injuries.
abstract: Ultrasound is well known as a low-cost, radiation-free and effective imaging technique to guide percutaneous procedures. The lower limb muscles represent a good target to perform such procedures under ultrasound guidance, thus allowing for clear and precise visualization of the needle during the whole procedure. The knowledge of guidelines and technical aspects is mandatory to act in the most safe and accurate way on target tissues that can be as small as a few millimetres. This review will focus above the local treatments of traumatic lower limb muscle injuries described in literature, focusing on new and promising approaches, such as platelet-rich plasma treatment of muscle tears in athletes. For each procedure, a brief how-to-do practical guide will be provided, emphasizing precautions and tricks based on day-by-day experience that may help to improve the outcome of percutaneous ultrasound-guided procedures around the lower limb muscles.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Genoa University, Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Orlandi
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Genoa University, Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corazza
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Genoa University, Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arcidiacono
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Radiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Carmelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Messina
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Radiology, Ospedale Santa Corona, Pietra Ligure, Savona, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Serafini
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Radiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milano, Italy.|4 Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Luca M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Sconfienza
authors.affiliation: 5 Department of Radiology, Ospedale Evangelico Internazionale, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Enzo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Silvestri
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional