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Ultrasound Guided Arthrogram Injection

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Now that we know what the approach

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going to be, let's show you what

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as we do the arthrogram. I'm going

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Here is an image.

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It looks kind of funky, I know, but trust

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This is after the contrast

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All that's black is liquid.

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Now, what did it look like

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And we're going to bring that down.

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And here it is right here.

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This is that posterior elbow joint.

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Let me just bring in both

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Let me go like this and let

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I'm going to zoom this up

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So this little divot, this area,

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corresponds to this area

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So the needle is going

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and we're going to hit this

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When we do that, this is going

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This is the fat pad.

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And you can see that fat pad elevating as

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which corresponds to the space

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So here is a little video.

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At this point, I'm approaching

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And you can actually see

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So let's run the video.

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You can see it coming in,

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coming in.

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And it's parked right here.

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You can see little dot right there.

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I'm going to go back and forth.

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Convince yourself that

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And right there, we're in the joint space.

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At this point, we're

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And here I am injecting fluid.

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What I like to do is put

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When you do that,

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some flow artifact, which is

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So let's see what that looks like.

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You see that? As I inject a contrast...

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Inject contrast, you see what's

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It's getting elevated from the under

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surface because fluid is

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And we can actually see a little bit

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of motion of that motion in the vascular...

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but it's actually just

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And that's how we do an elbow arthrogram

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Faculty

Mahesh Thapa, MD, MEd, FAAP

Division Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging, and Director of Diagnostic Imaging Professor

Seattle Children's & University of Washington

Tags

X-Ray (Plain Films)

Ultrasound

Pediatrics

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

Iatrogenic