Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases

Medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries are the most common knee ligament injuries. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the investigation of choice for detecting such injuries. We report two cases of acute grade 3 MCL tears in young adults in which the injury was suspected clinically and was later...

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Autores principales: Tiwari, Vivek, Marak, Dickey R, Muellner, Maximilian, Resinger, Christoph, Muellner, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29892512
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2251
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author Tiwari, Vivek
Marak, Dickey R
Muellner, Maximilian
Resinger, Christoph
Muellner, Thomas
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Resinger, Christoph
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description Medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries are the most common knee ligament injuries. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the investigation of choice for detecting such injuries. We report two cases of acute grade 3 MCL tears in young adults in which the injury was suspected clinically and was later confirmed by surgical exploration. However, the MRI failed to pick up the exact nature of injury. This report signifies the importance of an appropriate clinical examination for MCL injuries and stresses that decision-making for treatment should be based on the clinical examination rather than the MRI.
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spelling pubmed-59309692018-06-11 Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases Tiwari, Vivek Marak, Dickey R Muellner, Maximilian Resinger, Christoph Muellner, Thomas Cureus Psychiatry Medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries are the most common knee ligament injuries. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the investigation of choice for detecting such injuries. We report two cases of acute grade 3 MCL tears in young adults in which the injury was suspected clinically and was later confirmed by surgical exploration. However, the MRI failed to pick up the exact nature of injury. This report signifies the importance of an appropriate clinical examination for MCL injuries and stresses that decision-making for treatment should be based on the clinical examination rather than the MRI. Cureus 2018-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5930969/ /pubmed/29892512 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2251 Text en Copyright © 2018, Tiwari et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Tiwari, Vivek
Marak, Dickey R
Muellner, Maximilian
Resinger, Christoph
Muellner, Thomas
Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases
title Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases
title_full Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases
title_fullStr Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases
title_full_unstemmed Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases
title_short Grade III Distal Medial Collateral Ligament Tear Missed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Report of Two Cases
title_sort grade iii distal medial collateral ligament tear missed by magnetic resonance imaging: a report of two cases
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29892512
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2251
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