Normal variants and pitfalls in MR imaging of the ankle and foot

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 691-705

  Gyftopoulos, Soterios ^a   Bencardino, Jenny T ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle; Foot; MR Imaging; Pitfalls; Variants

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SOLEUS; ACHILLES TENDON; ADVENTITIAL BURSA; ANATOMIC BURSA; ANKLE; ANKLE FRACTURE; ANKLE TENDON; ANTERIOR TIBIAL TENDON INJURY; ANTERIOR TIBIOFIBULAR LIGAMENT; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW EDEMA; BONE PAIN; BURSITIS; CALCANEUS; CONGENITAL BURSA; DELTOID LIGAMENT COMPLEX; FIBULA; FIBULAR HALLUCAL SEASAMOID; FIBULAR RETROMALLEOLAR GROOVE; FLEXOR ACCESSORIUS DIGITORUM LONGUS; FOOT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; JOINT INJURY; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT INJURY; LISFRANC INJURY; MAGIC ANGLE PHENOMENON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSICLE INTERMETATARSEUM; OSSICLE PERONEUM SYNDROME; OSSICLE SUSTENTACULI; OSSICLE TRIGONUM; OSSICLE TRIGONUM FRACTURE; OSSICLE TRIGONUM SYNDROME; OSSIFICATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERONEAL RETINACULUM; PERONEAL TUNNEL; PERONEUS BREVIS MUSCLE TENDON; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PERONEUS TENDON; POSTERIOR INTERMALLEOLAR LIGAMENT; POSTERIOR TALOFIBULAR LIGAMENT INJURY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROCALCANEAL BURSA; REVIEW; SESAMOID BONE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPRING LIGAMENT COMPLEX; SUBLUXATION; SUBTALAR PSEUDOCOALITION; SYNOVIAL BURSA; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TALUS; TARSOMETATARSAL JOINT; TENDON; TENDON INJURY; TENDON SHEATH; TENOSYNOVIAL FLUID; TIBIAL HALLUCAL SESAMOID; TYPE I ACCESSORY NAVICULAR OSSICLE; TYPE II ACCESSORY NAVICULAR OSSICLE; TYPE III ACCESSORY NAVICULAR OSSICLE; XANTHOMA; XANTHOMATOUS ACHILLES TENDON;

ANKLE; FOOT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 78649494344     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2010.07.007     Document Type: Review

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