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There is a lesion that has been described in the

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baseball pitcher who is, uh, a youngster.

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And it's a trochlear osteochondral injury.

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It leads to irregularity, cystic change,

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and sometimes a bone concavity located here

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between the trochlear and the Capella.

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This can become quite large, large enough.

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So you can see it with routine radiography, as in this case.

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I think I have another one.

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Here's another example of that, not quite as prominent,

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but this is a trochlear osteochondral injury.

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And then another problem

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that we can see in baseball pitchers

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and other athletes are stress fractures involving the iliac.

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Classically, they begin deep on the deeper surface

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and they extend in a linear

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and often oblique fashion toward the posterior surface.

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Here is one example of what one might look like.

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I've seen a lot of these.

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Here's another one shown by ct and mr.

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That's almost a, a, uh, complete fracture involving the oc.

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Here's one that we followed over 18 months.

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Here's what it looked like.

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Initially, it was kinda limited to the deep surface

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of the eon.

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It healed. You can see low signal reflecting bone sclerosis.

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And then what happened is a re fracture occurred

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through that area.

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One further example where a stress fracture progressed

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to a complete fracture involving, uh, the ilium.

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And my last slide, I wanted to show you boxer's, elbow,

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'cause boxer's, elbow can lead to a peculiar pattern

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of bone proliferation that occurs postal laterally.

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I'm showing you diagrammatically.

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I'll show you that in one case, reported in the literature

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in full extension

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and pronation,

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one may get impingement involving this region of the elbow.

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So it's kind of on the lateral side, not on the medial side.

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So what I've done in, uh, my allotted period of time,

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actually a little bit shorter than that, I've kind of gone

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through elbow stability and instability.

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I've emphasized the critical ligaments.

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I know we've gone into a lot of anatomy, which for some

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of you may, uh, be a little bit too much at the beginning,

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but hopefully it'll give you an idea

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of what you have to learn.

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If you wanna understand what is a stable elbow

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and what is an unstable elbow.

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Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

Tags

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

Elbow & Forearm