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Pseudotumors in Sports

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Imaging of Orthopedic Sports Injuries

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Musculoskeletal pseudotumors on imaging are not a rarity and may be increasingly detected due to an increased use of diagnostic imaging and expanding subspecialized clinical referral basis. A large variety of pseudotumors exist. Although there have been technical advances and there is a diversity of imaging modalities, the diagnosis of a pseudotumor remains challenging and its morphologic features may be difficult to distinguish from those of a malignant neoplastic lesion. It requires a systematic approach with awareness of the common types of pseudotumors, its imaging appearances, regional anatomy, injury mechanisms, and carefully obtained clinical history. This chapter illustrates the most important pseudotumors on imaging, their imaging characteristics on different imaging modalities, and possible clinical settings with keys to differential diagnosis. Emphasis is placed on MRI.

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  2. The Royal Orthopedic Hospital NHS Trust, MRI Centre, Birmingham, UK

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  3. University of Notre Dame, Sydney School of Medicine, Sydney Darlinghurst, Australia

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Lunkiewicz, M., Davies, A.M., Anderson, S.E. (2021). Pseudotumors in Sports. In: Vanhoenacker, F.M., Maas, M., Gielen, J.L. (eds) Imaging of Orthopedic Sports Injuries. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2020_270

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