Musculoskeletal Interventional Ultrasound

Diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound: part 1. Fundamentals.

Musculoskeletal ultrasound involves the use of high-frequency sound waves to image soft tissues and bony structures in the body for the purposes of diagnosing pathology or guiding real-time interventional procedures. Recently, an increasing number of physicians have integrated musculoskeletal ultrasound into their practices to facilitate patient care. Technological advancements, improved portab...

American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) position statement: interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound in sports medicine.

The use of diagnostic and interventional ultrasound has significantly increased over the past decade. A majority of the increased utilization is by nonradiologists. In sports medicine, ultrasound is often used to guide interventions such as aspirations, diagnostic or therapeutic injections, tenotomies, releases, and hydrodissections. This American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) pos...

Musculoskeletal Diseases Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques

Musculoskeletal infections: ultrasound appearances.

Musculoskeletal infections are commonly encountered in clinical practice. This review will discuss the ultrasound appearances of a variety of musculoskeletal infections such as cellulitis, infective tenosynovitis, pyomyositis, soft-tissue abscesses, septic arthritis, acute and chronic osteomyelitis, and post-operative infection. The peculiar sonographic features of less common musculoskeletal i...

Musculoskeletal ultrasound: technical guidelines

Ultrasound is the most rapidly developing technique in musculoskeletal imaging. Continuing technological advances have broadened its application, such that it may now replace MR imaging in many specific clinical settings. The main drawbacks of musculoskeletal ultrasound remain a strong operator dependence and the lack of standardized scanning protocols. To overcome this limitation, the European...