CASE HISTORY
Elbow avulsion/? UCL.
TECHNICAL FACTORS
Long- and short-axis fat- and water-weighted images were performed.
KEY IMAGES
This case has no key images.
CASE FINDINGS
- With a small flake of bone involving the sublime tubercle of the coronoid process is a tear of the distal UCL. Degree of diastasis is guesstimated at 3mm. Proximal UCL and medial apophysis normal.
- LCL: Normal.
- Conformity: Normal.
- Skeleton: Normal.
- Soft Tissues: Normal.
- Triceps and Biceps: Normal.
- Extensors: Normal.
CASE CONCLUSION
Distal avulsion tear of the ulnar collateral ligament as suspected and also a tiny or miniscule flake of cortical bone may have come with it.
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