Kornaat Peter R, de Jonge Milko C, Maas Mario
Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Eur J Radiol. 2008 Jul;67(1):49-53. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.01.057. Epub 2008 Mar 18.
Sports medicine is one of the most rapidly growing subspecialties in orthopaedics and therefore radiologists will be confronted with it more and more often. With the increased use of MR imaging in evaluating joint and muscle pathology in athletes new challenges emerge. One of these challenges is the role of BME, high-signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images. Some studies find a positive association between BME and clinical complaints, whereas other studies do not. Even more interesting is the finding that BME seems to appear quite often in asymptomatic athletes, although little has been reported in the literature about the MR imaging findings in the asymptomatic knee of the dedicated athlete. As the field of sports medicine expands, radiologists will increasingly deal with the presence of BME in athletes.
运动医学是骨科领域中发展最为迅速的亚专业之一，因此放射科医生将会越来越频繁地接触到它。随着磁共振成像（MR）在评估运动员关节和肌肉病变方面的应用增多，新的挑战也随之出现。其中一个挑战是骨髓水肿（BME）在T2加权MR图像上表现为高信号强度的作用。一些研究发现BME与临床症状之间存在正相关，而其他研究则未发现。更有趣的是，尽管关于专业运动员无症状膝关节的MR成像表现，文献报道较少，但发现BME似乎在无症状运动员中相当常见。随着运动医学领域的扩大，放射科医生将越来越多地应对运动员中BME的存在情况。
