Imaging of Orthopedic Sports Injuries

lt;p> Filip M. Vanhoenacker is a staff radiologist at the Department of Radiology at General Hospital Sint-Maarten Mechelen, and a Guest Professor of Musculoskeletal Radiology at the University of Antwerp's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Ghent University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Filip Vanhoenacker graduated as a medical doctor from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1987.

Part I: Relevant Basic Science and General Imaging Principles.- The Clinician's Point of View.- Imaging Techniques and Procedures in Sports Injuries.- Muscle Injuries.- Cartilage Trauma.- Basic Imaging Principles of Tendons and Ligaments.- Bone Marrow Edema in Sports Injuries/General Concept.- Overuse Bone Trauma and Stress Fractures.- Pseudotumors in Sports.- PART II: Topografic Discussion.- Shoulder Instability.- Rotator Cuff and Impingement Symptoms.- Scapular, Clavicular, Acromioclavicular, and Sternoclavicular Joint Injuries.- Imaging of Sports Injuries of the Elbow.- Imaging of Wrist Injuries.- Finger and Hand.- Athletic Groin Pain.- Hip, Pelvis and Sacro-Iliac Joints.- Sports-Related Meniscal Injury.- Knee: Ligaments and Tendons.- Imaging of Anterior Knee Pain and Maltracking.- Injuries of the Ligaments and Tendons in Ankle and Foot.- Ankle and Foot: Osteochondral Injuries.- Acute and Overuse Lesions of the Leg and Calf.- The Spine in Sports Injuries: The Cervical Spine.- TheSpine in Sports Injuries: Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Sports-Related Maxillofacial Injuries.- Thoracic and Abdominal Wall Injuries in Sports.- Special Considerations in the Immature Skeleton.- The Aging Athlete.- PART III: Monitoring of Sports Injury Repair.- Natural History and Monitoring of Fractures and Microfractures.- Monitoring of Muscle and Tendon Repair.- PART IV: Addenda.- Imaging-Guided Intervention of Sports Injuries.- Postoperative Imaging of Joints in the Sportive Patient.- Imaging of Sports Lesions in Soccer Players.