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This is the first case of the second part.

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That's the case number five, uh, 30-year-old male

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with anterior fight pain after kicking a ball one day ago.

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So that's, that's, that's the history.

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And when we see the images of the hip of the patient,

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we can see that this patient has a lesion, uh,

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at the rectus femoral muscle, right?

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As Dr. Mini Patria told.

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The anatomy of this muscle is somewhat

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different from the rest.

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And we, we can see the direct head

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and indirect head of the rectus femoris.

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The central part is the indirect head,

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and this peripheral part is the direct head.

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And in this case, we have two lesions

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and are two characteristic lesions

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that we can see in this muscle.

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The first lesion that is more proximal right here,

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it's a partial tear of the myo,

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uh, myofascial

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or myop aortic, uh, junction of the posterior portion

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of the direct, uh, head of the, of the,

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of the rectus femoral.

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So the, the indirect head is here, the, in the direct head,

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it's around the indirect head.

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So here is a part of the direct head that we can see, uh,

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a lot of lesions in this place.

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I work more than 20 years

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with soccer players here in my city.

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We have like, there are three team, three teams,

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or sometimes two teams on the first soccer division,

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uh, of Brazil.

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And we see this cases a lot.

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And this is a place, this is a place that we see

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many lesions of rectus femoris have this proximal, uh,

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neo fascial or neo neurotic junction

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of the direct head of the tandem.

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And the other place that we see a lot of lesions in

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that we are seeing,

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that we are seeing a lesion right here is the indirect head

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of rectus fems.

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This here, uh, we call this the, the, the direct, uh,

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let me just put my, my

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my, my PowerPoint here.

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We call this the pro, the central tend

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of the hetus fems, uh, the orthopedic surgeons, the, the,

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the, that, that deals with, uh, soccer players.

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They call this, that the di direct, the, the central tend

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of the rectus fems.

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That is the indirect, uh, head of the rectus fems

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and the tandem it's ruptured.

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And between these two lesions, the lesion that is worst

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for the athlete, that's worst for the patient is this lesion

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of the indirect, of the

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Central, tend of the rectus femoris.

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Um, as Dr.

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Minnie Patria said, uh, in the British, uh, classification,

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the lesions that get that rupture,

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the tendons are the lesions that, uh, uh, the patient has,

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uh, uh, a worse prognosis

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or it, uh, delays the return to play of the,

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the patient at the Sal plane.

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We can see the two lesions right here.

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Here is the proximal lesion at the, uh, neo neurotic

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or the neo fascial junction of the direct head

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of the rectus femoris.

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And here is the tear at the central tendon

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of the rectus femoris that is part of the indirect head

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of the rectus femoris at the coronal plane.

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We can also see, uh, here is the,

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is the posterior lesion, uh, of the direct head of the,

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the rectus femoris.

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And here is the more anterior lesion that is the lesion

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of the indirect head of the Hector Femoris, the central tend

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of the hec, rectus femoris.

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And talking about like, uh, the, the doc, the doctors here.

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When I, uh, report a case like that for an athlete,

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especially soccer players, the, the doctors of the teams,

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they like that I put like the British

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classification in my report.

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Uh, but otherwise I just describe the lesion.

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I just describe the findings,

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and I usually don't put, uh,

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any kind of classification.

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Uh, if the patient is not an athlete

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or if the do the orthopedic surgeon, they, they, uh, he

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or she, uh, doesn't ask direct for me.

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So that's the way that w that I do here, uh, with patients.

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And by the way, some of the orthopedic surgeons, most

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of them that they don't deal with athletes, they don't, uh,

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know very well this classification.

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And it's also something new for them.

Report

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