Elbow Radiology

The radiological interpretation of humeral shaft fractures is usually uncomplicated in comparison to shoulder and elbow injuries. Fractures of the humeral shaft only account for approximately 25% of total injuries to the bone. 

Rogers LF, Malave S Jr, White H, Tachdjian MO (1978) Plastic bowing, torus and greenstick supracondylar fractures of the humerus radiographic clues to obscure fractures of the elbow in children. Radiology 128 145-150 Roposch A, Reis M, Molina M, Davids J, Stanley E, Wilkins K, Chambers HG (2002) Supracondylar fractures of the humerus associated with ipsilateral forearm fractures in children a report of forty-seven cases. J Pediatr Orthop 21 307-312... 

Struthers , which joins the anomalous bony process and the medial epicondyle. Clinically, this condition typically affects young sportsmen as a result of intense muscular activity in the elbow and forearm and may start with pain and numbness in the first three fingers and weakness of forearm muscles innervated by the median nerve (Sener et al. 1998). US can demonstrate the relationship of the median nerve with the anomalous bone and ligament. Although not yet reported in the radiological literature, displacement of the nerve by these structures may represent an indicator of entrapment. Therapy includes excision of the ligament of Struthers and ablation of the supracondylar process. The brachial artery can also be compressed by an anomalous insertion of the pronator teres muscle into the supracondylar process (Talha et al. 1987). 

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Nazarian LN, McShane JM, Ciccotti MC et al (2003) Dynamic US of the anterior band of the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow in asymptomatic major league baseball pitchers. Radiology 227 149-154... 

A series of procedures which are safe and reasonably simple to perform in the radiology room will he briefly described for each individual body area, including the shoulder, the elbow, the wrist and hand, the hip, the knee, the ankle and hindfoot and the forefoot. 

Ikavalko M, Lehto MU, Repo A, Kautiainen H, Hamalainen M. The Souter-Strathclyde elbow arthroplasty. A clinical and radiological study of 525 consecutive cases. J Bone Joint Surg Br 2002 January 84(l) 77-82. 

Rauhaniemi J, Tiusanen H, Kyro A. Kudo total elbow arthroplasty in rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical and radiological results. J Hand Surg [Br] 2006 April 31 (2) 162-7. 

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