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Finally, now here is the actual MR of the

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prior vignettes that we've been talking about.

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Here is a coronal T1 fat SAT image,

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and the bright stuff in the joint is the

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gadolinium solution that we injected.

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So this is an arthrogram, uh, image.

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On your left is a fat-suppressed,

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fluid-sensitive sequence.

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So all the bright stuff you see over

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here is actually edema from the injury.

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So what we notice here is there is a divot here

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at the superior aspect of the humeral head.

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That's our Hill-Sachs injury from

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an anterior shoulder dislocation.

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There's edema all along the humeral

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head, and there's relative obliteration

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of the growth plate over here.

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And you can notice it on the T1 FATSAT.

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You see growth plate, growth plate, growth

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plate, and over here there's a blob.

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So there's been a crush injury

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from the Hill-Sachs that has been

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propagated to the growth plate.

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So we know a crush injury to a growth

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plate is a Salter-Harris type V injury.

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So, I'm glad we got the arthrogram because

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this patient had an anterior shoulder

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dislocation, so there's also injury to

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the anterior labral ligamentous structure.

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And I want to show you that briefly,

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uh, on this view right over here.

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So this is our axial T1 fat-saturated image.

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Again, the stuff in the, in the

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joint is, is the gadolinium.

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That's bright because of the contrast.

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Just this image right here, we can see the

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posterior labrum is nice and well-formed.

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You can see some darkness over here.

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But look at the anterior labrum.

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It's very thickened.

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You've lost the blackness.

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There's thickening of the anterior periosteum.

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It's been stripped off a little bit.

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So this is an ALPSA lesion, A L P S A,

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anterior labral periosteal sleeve avulsion.

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And again, you see a little bit more of that

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injury over here as you go further down.

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So this is in the realm or

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spectrum of a Bankart lesion.

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Uh, the bone itself is fine,

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so it's not a bony Bankart.

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It's a soft tissue Bankart.

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And as we go up, we see here's the sequela.

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Sorry, as we go up, here's the

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sequela of the Hill-Sachs, right?

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And the crush injury to the physis.

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So the mechanism of injury is a violent

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anterior shoulder dislocation. And as the

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shoulder was popping back in the joint,

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anterior aspect of the glenoid and its

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labrum smacked up against the posterior

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superior aspect of our humeral head.

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And that caused a crush injury to the physis

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in the form of a Hill-Sachs deformity and

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an injury to the anterior aspect of the

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glenoid in the form of a Bankart lesion.

Report

Faculty

Mahesh Thapa, MD, MEd, FAAP

Division Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging, and Director of Diagnostic Imaging Professor

Seattle Children's & University of Washington

Tags

Trauma

Pediatrics

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

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