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Okay, so let's move on to case three.
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So we're gonna stick with the perineal tendons
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for just one more case.
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Um, here we have odl, T two fat suppressed odl, T one
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coronal oblique pd, fat suppressed,
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and then our long axis PD fat suppressed images.
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So this, uh, the history for this one,
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this was a 67-year-old woman.
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The history that the clinician gave us is not super helpful.
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I think it was 30 days of pain radiating to the hip,
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to the dorsum of the foot.
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Um, what is probably more helpful here is the marker
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that our technologist kindly placed for us on, uh,
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the patient indicating the location
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of the patient's symptoms.
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Usually I find these to be the most helpful.
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Um, a lot of times when I'm protocoling MRIs
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and I, I know that the history is foot pain without
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a specific location.
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I'll actually add a little comment to ask our technologist
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to put a marker where the patient hurts to at least try
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and give us some clue where we can focus our attention.
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So here in this case, you'll see that the marker is
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right over a structure that, uh, Dr.
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Resnick just talked about.
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This is our OS peroneum within our peroneous long tendon,
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and we can see quite a bit of edema within the os.
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And there's also just a touch
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of edema within the adjacent OID
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and, um, some surrounding soft tissue edema around the os.
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If we look at our T one weighted images,
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I think perhaps the OS itself looks a little bit fragmented.
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Um, if you wanted to confirm that,
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you could ask for an x-ray.
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One of the things that I learned from reading
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tele cases with Dr.
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Resnick is that if you think that an x-ray would be helpful,
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even if they didn't give it to you,
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it's perfectly reasonable to ask for it, um,
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or ask them to do one and to correlate later.
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So if we carefully inspect the perineal tendon itself,
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looking at the longest, um, here, I think the,
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uh, coronal oblique images are super helpful.
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We can see some subtle increased signal within the substance
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of the tendon proximal to the os,
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and then a little bit distal to the os, um, just
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before the tendon enters the cuboid tunnel.
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So that's compatible with a split tear of the
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perineal longus tendon.
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We can see that also on our SAL images.
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So this constellation of findings is compatible with a,
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a diagnosis of painful eronium syndrome.
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Dr. Raznick just showed you the slide on
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that in his last lecture.
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So, pops or painful oone syndrome is,
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is not just one condition,
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but it's gonna be a spectrum of different conditions
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that contribute to plantar and lateral foot pain.
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So you can have either acute
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or chronic fractures on that oon, um,
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or you can have diastasis of a multipart Peron.
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Um, you can have problems with the tendon itself,
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including either a partial
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or complete tear of the peroneus longest tendon,
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or, um, you might just have a very large perineal tubercle
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that's gonna entrap the tendon
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or the OS during tendon excursion.
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So pops can be either conservatively managed
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or you can treat it surgically.
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Um, depending on what pathology is present, you just manage,
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um, whatever issue is there.
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So if the problem is the os, you can excise the os.
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Um, if the problem is the tendon itself, you can either
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repair the tendon or you can, um, perform a tenodesis.