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Let's go to the case.

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And the first case that I'd like to show you today at, uh,

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by the way, it's not a one case.

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It's a set of, uh, two cases, uh, that I'm,

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talk a little bit about the osteochondral lesions

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and the mechanism of lesions of the osteochondral lesions

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that we see, uh, in the ankle.

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Uh, and the first case, this one,

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let me get the history of the patient.

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20 years old male with ankle sprain one week ago.

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And we can see, uh, men some, uh,

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classic findings in this case.

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Uh, first let's go to the, to the obvious ones.

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Uh, we can see, uh, a complete tear

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of the anterior te fibular ligament.

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There is also a tear

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of the calcan fibular ligament at the medial side.

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There is also, uh, uh, a high signal intensity.

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Uh, the deltoid ligament is not a tear,

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but, uh, probably, uh, a contusion.

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And by the way, uh, I spr slash contusion.

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And we can see also an edema at the medial, uh, wall

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or the medial portion of the TAUs

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and some, some kind of edema also at the,

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at the medial malus.

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And this, uh, all these settings, it's symbolized to us

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that is an inversion, uh, uh, it's, uh,

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an inversion mechanism of injury.

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Uh, there was inversion of this ankle,

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and this patient also has this lesion right here.

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We can see that there is a, a kind of a denomination of not,

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not just the chondral, uh, the, the, the, the, the,

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it's not just a chondral lesion,

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but also a denomination of the, of the subc chondral bone,

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right here at the lateral, uh, ler dome.

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And this is a classical lesion.

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It's a classical o osteochondral lesion that we find

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at the lateral, uh, ler dome.

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Uh, it's caused by an, uh, inversion, uh, mechanism

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of injury with, uh, uh, with, uh, Dorsey, with, with,

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with blunt, with dorsiflexion.

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I'm gonna show you a PowerPoint in a little bit,

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but it happens with, uh, an inversion mechanism of lesion

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and dorsiflexion of the foot with axle load when it happens.

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That's the kind of lesion that we can see at the lateral,

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uh, part of the Taylor Dome.

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Okay? So this is the first case of this, uh, of, of,

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of this part of the, the, the case

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that I would like to show you.

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And now I want to show another case for you.

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Uh, and the second case, it's a companion case, let's say,

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uh, we can say that, uh, this one, uh, we can,

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it's a 27-year-old male with a persistent pain

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after, uh, anco sprain six months ago.

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So let's take a look at the Taylor Dome.

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And now here we can see a lesion at the medial,

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uh, part of the Taylor Dome at this lesion right here.

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You can see that this lesion, it's not acute

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as the first one.

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Uh, there is a chondral defect right here.

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There is a lesion of the subc chondral plate right here

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that we can see that it's, uh, it's thinner right here.

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And there is an edema in this area right here.

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We can also see that, uh, this me,

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this medial tailored lesion.

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It's a little bit, uh, larger

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and it's a little bit deeper than the lesion

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that we saw on the lateral, uh, tailored dom.

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And this is the normal, uh, finding that when we deal

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with the, uh,

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with osteochondral lesions at the Taylor Domme, the

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different from the lesions at the lateral Taylor Dome

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that occur with inversion of the foot

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and, uh, dorsiflexion the lesions of the medial Taylor dom.

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They, they, they, they occur with, uh, inversion

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of inversion of the foot, but with dorsiflexion

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and with this, with this dorsal flexion, the part

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of the tailor dome that, uh, becomes entrapped

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inside articulation is the medial side.

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Okay, so now I'd like to show, uh, uh,

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just a, a, a PowerPoint explaining this mechanism

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of lesion for you.

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So this is our first case,

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and talking about the mechanism of lesion.

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Uh, what happened is this inversion mechanism of injury,

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right at the, uh, with axial load at the lateral side.

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This what happened here.

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It's a sheer force, a sheer force

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that occurs at the lateral side,

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and the sheer force occurs with dorsiflexion, uh,

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and the lesions at the lateral side, they are smaller

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and shallower than the lesions of the medial side.

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Uh, on the other side, the lesions of the medial side

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of the tailored dome, they occur with plantar flexion,

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inversion with plantar flexion.

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And the kind of lesion here, it's not a sheer force,

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it's a compression force.

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And that's why the lesions of the medial side, they tend

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to be, uh, larger

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and deeper than the lesions of the lateral side.

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And another, uh, factor that, uh,

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complicates the lesions of the medial side, it's

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that the central medial region of the Taylor Dome, it's less

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vascularized, right?

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So, uh, just, uh, talking about a, a paper

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that they did a comparison,

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and most of the lesions they occur at the medial side in

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comparison with the lateral side. And, uh, some

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Papers at the literature, they reach this 90 to 10%,

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uh, rate between lesions of the medial side

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and the lateral side of the Taylor dome.

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So depending on the reference, so this was my first case.

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Faculty

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

Rodrigo Aguiar, MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology

Federal University of Paraná - Brazil

Mini N. Pathria, MD, FRCP(C)

Division Chief, Musculoskeletal Imaging

University of California San Diego

Evelyne Fliszar, MD

Professor of Clinical Radiology

UC San Diego

Karen Chen, MD

MSK Radiologist

VA Healthcare System, San Diego

Tags

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

Knee

Hip & Thigh

Foot & Ankle