Long-standing groin pain in contact sports: a prospective case-control and MRI study.

Objectives: We aimed to prospectively evaluate the prevalence of long-standing groin pain and related MRI findings in contact sports.

Methods: This case-control study followed three male elite-level soccer, ice-hockey and bandy teams (102 players) for 2 years. All athletes with long-standing groin pain lasting >30 days and age-matched controls (1:3) from the same teams were examined clinically, using pelvic MRI and Hip and Groin Outcome Scores (HAGOS).

Athletic Pubalgia in Females: Predictive Value of MRI in Outcomes of Endoscopic Surgery.

Background: Athletic pubalgia is typically associated with male athletes participating in contact sports and less frequently with females. Endoscopic surgery may fully treat the patient with athletic pubalgia.

Purpose: To perform an outcomes analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and endoscopic surgery in female patients with athletic pubalgia.

Laparoscopic surgery for chronic groin pain in athletes is more effective than nonoperative treatment: a randomized clinical trial with magnetic resonance imaging of 60 patients with sportsman's hernia (athletic pubalgia).

Background: Chronic groin pain in athletes presents often a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Sportsman's hernia (also called "athletic pubalgia") is a deficiency of the posterior wall of the inguinal canal, which is often repaired by laparoscopic mesh placement. Endoscopic mesh repair may offer a faster recovery for athletes with sportsman's hernia than nonoperative therapy.

Effect of heavy training in contact sports on MRI findings in the pubic region of asymptomatic competitive athletes compared with non-athlete controls.

Objective: Bone marrow edema (BME) at the pubic symphysis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is usually associated with groin pain and stress injury of the pubic bone. Little is known of the pubic MR imaging findings of asymptomatic heavy training athletes in contact sports.

Materials And Methods: Pelvic MRI of male asymptomatic soccer (n=10), ice hockey (n=10), bandy (n=10) and female floor-ball players (n=10) were compared with non-athlete controls (10 males, 10 females) without groin pain to analyse the presence of BME (on a four-point scale).

Does preoperative core needle biopsy increase surgical site infections in breast cancer surgery? Randomized study of antibiotic prophylaxis.

Background: Preoperative core needle biopsies may increase the risk of surgical site infection (SSI) in breast cancer surgery. The purpose of this randomized trial was to determine whether a prophylactic antibiotic would prevent SSI under these conditions.

Methods: Imaging-guided multiple core needle biopsies were performed one to two weeks prior to surgery to obtain confirmation of the presence of breast cancer.

Pubic magnetic resonance imaging findings in surgically and conservatively treated athletes with osteitis pubis compared to asymptomatic athletes during heavy training.

Background: Osteitis pubis is characterized by diffuse pain, inflammation, and bony changes in the pubic symphysis. Bone marrow edema in magnetic resonance imaging is associated with stress injury and osteitis of the pubic bone.

Hypothesis: Laparoscopic mesh repair decreases inflammation and pain in the pubic periosteum.

Disc degeneration in low back pain: a 17-year follow-up study using magnetic resonance imaging.

Study Design: A prospective, cohort clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of patients with low back pain.

Objective: To study if lumbar disc degeneration (DD), diagnosed in young patients with low back pain by using MRI will predict chronic pain, disc herniation, or functional disability after a 17-year follow-up.

Summary Of Background Data: In 1987, 75 male Finnish conscripts aged 20 years, with low back pain hindering their military service, were studied using MRI at 0.

Long-term pain and recurrence after repair of ventral incisional hernias by open mesh: clinical and MRI study.

Background And Aims: Polypropylene mesh repair of large incisional ventral hernias has become increasingly popular. Long-term effects of the mesh on pain and abdominal muscles are not known.

Patients/methods: Retromuscular pre-peritoneal polypropylene mesh was placed by open technique in 84 consecutive patients with large ventral hernias (mean defect size 130 cm(2)).