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The Efficacy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Acute Knee Injuries

 

作者: Muhammad Munshi,   Michael Davidson,   Peter MacDonald,   Warren Froese,   Kelly Sutherland,  

 

期刊: Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine  (OVID Available online 2000)
卷期: Volume 10, issue 1  

页码: 34-39

 

ISSN:1050-642X

 

年代: 2000

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: Arthroscopy;Knee, wounds and injuries;Magnetic resonance imaging, treatment planning

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the knee in acute injuries with indeterminate clinical findings, using arthroscopy as a gold standard.DesignA prospective double-blind study was performed. All patients underwent MRI on a 1.5 T magnet using dual spin echo pulse sequences. This was followed by arthroscopy.SettingTertiary care referral center.PatientsTwenty-three patients with an average age of 26 years satisfied the study criteria. Patients had to have been seen by one of two orthopaedic surgeons within 6 weeks of sudden trauma to the knee complicated by a hemarthrosis, clinical assessment of which was equivocal.ResultsThe respective sensitivity and specificity for MRI of the knee were 90% (18/20) and 67% (2/3) for detecting any anterior cruciate ligament injury, 50% (1/2) and 86% (18/21) for detecting medial meniscal tears, and 88% (7/8) and 73% (11/15) for detecting lateral meniscal tears. MRI also identified injuries that could not be assessed on arthroscopy, including 14 bone bruises, five posterior cruciate ligament tears, nine medial collateral ligament tears, and one lateral collateral ligament tear. The detection of composite injury requiring surgical intervention yielded a sensitivity of 100% (16/16) and a specificity of 71% (5/7). Prospective use of MRI evaluation of the knee could have prevented 22% (5/23) of diagnostic arthroscopic procedures.ConclusionEquivocal clinical findings in patients with acute knee injury should lead to use of MRI in an appropriate clinical setting. To our knowledge a prospective study of the efficacy of MRI of the knee in this patient population has not been reported. In the presence of such inclusion criteria, the results of our study support the use of early MRI to guide further surgical management.

 

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