Ultrasonography versus magnetic resonance

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Jul 27, 2017 - Warszawa, Poland, 2 Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Office, Military Institute ... Warszawa, Poland, 3 Department of Orthopedics, Military Institute of ...
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Ultrasonography versus magnetic resonance imaging in detecting and grading common extensor tendon tear in chronic lateral epicondylitis Artur Bachta1,2*, Krzysztof Rowicki3, Bartłomiej Kisiel1, Magdalena Żabicka4, Sylwia ElertKopeć1, Janusz Płomiński3, Witold Tłustochowicz1, Artur Maliborski4

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1 Department of Internal Diseases and Rheumatology, Military Institute of Medicine, ul. Szasero´w 128, Warszawa, Poland, 2 Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Office, Military Institute of Medicine, ul. Szasero´w 128, Warszawa, Poland, 3 Department of Orthopedics, Military Institute of Medicine, ul. Szasero´w 128, Warszawa, Poland, 4 Department of Radiology, Military Institute of Medicine, ul. Szasero´w 128, Warszawa, Poland * [email protected]

Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Bachta A, Rowicki K, Kisiel B, Żabicka M, Elert-Kopeć S, Płomiński J, et al. (2017) Ultrasonography versus magnetic resonance imaging in detecting and grading common extensor tendon tear in chronic lateral epicondylitis. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0181828. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0181828 Editor: Marta M. Alonso, Universidad de Navarra, SPAIN Received: February 1, 2017 Accepted: July 8, 2017 Published: July 27, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Bachta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Funding: The study was supported by the Military Institute of Medicine grant (number 0000000256). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Objectives To investigate the diagnostic performance and reliability of ultrasonography (US) in detecting and grading common extensor tendon (CET) tear in patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis (LE), using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the reference standard.

Materials and methods The study comprised fifty-eight chronic LE patients. Each patient underwent US and MRI. CET status was classified as: high-grade tear (50% thickness), low-grade tear (