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Radiology

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Shoulder

Built from Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology

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7 sections · 61 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Role of shoulder MRI
    • Structures MR shoulder evaluates

    2 slides

  2. 02

    Anatomy

    Rotator cuff and glenoid labrum

    • The four rotator cuff muscles
    • Rotator cuff muscle tendons
    • Supraspinatus tendon and critical zone
    • Glenoid labrum
    • Normal shoulder anatomy

    5 slides

  3. 03

    Rotator Cuff

    Imaging technique, degeneration, and tears

    • Cause of rotator cuff disease
    • Imaging the rotator cuff
    • Normal rotator cuff (oblique coronal)
    • Shoulder MR technique settings
    • MR arthrogram
    • Anterior supraspinatus and internal rotation
    • Internal rotation hiding a partial tear
    • Reading supraspinatus signal
    • Tendinosis and myxoid degeneration
    • Myxoid degeneration of the supraspinatus
    • Myxoid degeneration changes treatment
    • Full-thickness tear
    • Complete supraspinatus tear
    • Partial-thickness tears
    • Partial articular-surface cuff tear
    • Partial cuff tear
    • Rim-rent tear
    • Rim-rent tear

    18 slides

  4. 04

    Bony Abnormalities

    Hill–Sachs lesion

    • Bony abnormalities of the humeral head
    • Hill–Sachs lesion

    2 slides

  5. 05

    Glenoid Labrum

    Tears, SLAP lesions, and normal variants

    • Labral tears and instability
    • Imaging the glenoid labrum
    • Normal labrum appearance
    • Normal glenoid labrum
    • Diagnosing a labral tear
    • Torn anterior labrum
    • SLAP lesion
    • Normal variants that mimic tears
    • Labral variants that mimic tears
    • Sublabral foramen
    • Sublabral recess versus SLAP
    • Sublabral recess

    12 slides

  6. 06

    Biceps Tendon

    Tenosynovitis, tendinosis, tear, and dislocation

    • Biceps tendon anatomy and tenosynovitis
    • Biceps tendinosis, tear, and dislocation
    • Biceps tendinosis

    3 slides

  7. 07

    Nerve and Muscle Syndromes

    Suprascapular nerve, quadrilateral space, Parsonage–Turner

    • Suprascapular nerve course
    • Spinoglenoid notch ganglion
    • Ganglion in the spinoglenoid notch
    • Treating the ganglion
    • Fatty atrophy on oblique sagittal images
    • Quadrilateral space syndrome
    • Borders of the quadrilateral space
    • Quadrilateral space syndrome
    • Recognizing quadrilateral space syndrome
    • Muscle edema pattern
    • Parsonage–Turner syndrome
    • Parsonage–Turner clinical sequence
    • Clinical picture makes it pathognomonic
    • Parsonage–Turner facts
    • Why Parsonage–Turner was missed
    • Summary: key points
    • References and suggested readings
    • References and suggested readings (continued)
    • Brant and Helms' Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology

    19 slides