We performed intraoperative arthrography of the knee in 12 children with congenital short femur, Blount's disease or Ollier's disease in whom the Ilizarov technique was used for correction of deformity, leg lengthening or both. In each case, arthrography revealed a joint surface considerably different from that assumed from plain radiographs, and resulted in a change in the placement of our ref...

BACKGROUND It is not known which region of the stomach is responsible for symptom generation or whether symptoms induced by gastric distension are region specific. Also, it is unclear whether low level gastric distension has a modulatory role on gastric tone and mechanosensitivity. AIMS To define differences in the sensorimotor response to distension between proximal and distal gastric disten...

The advent of arthrography and arthroscopy have highlighted the difficulties of diagnosing meniscal lesions. Much of the success with these time-consuming techniques appears to have been in North America. At the moment it is likely that only a minority of British surgeons will acquire that expertise with arthroscopy described by Jackson and Dandy (1976). Indeed it is probable, in the current ec...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to determine the optimal mixture ratio of gadolinium and iodinated contrast agent for simultaneous direct MR arthrography and CT arthrography. MATERIALS AND METHODS An in vitro study was performed utilizing mixtures of gadolinium at six different concentrations (0.625, 1.25, 2.5, 5.0, 10 and 20 mmol/L) and iodinated contrast agent at seven different concentra...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and severity of arthrographic pain after intraarticular injection of a gadolinium mixture diluted in normal saline for direct MR arthrography. SUBJECTS AND METHODS From March 2009 until January 2010, 155 consecutive patients underwent direct MR arthrography; 20 patients were lost to follow-up. Patients were contacted by teleph...

OBJECTIVE To compare, in terms of their demonstration of tears of the anterior glenoid labrum, oblique axial MR arthrography obtained with the patient's shoulder in the abduction and external rotation (ABER) position, with conventional axial MR arthrography obtained with the patient's arm in the neutral position. MATERIALS AND METHODS MR arthrography of the shoulder, including additional obli...