More than 222 000 hip and knee prostheses are implanted each year in France and this number is growing. Simple radiography is generally used to examine these prostheses in situ but this method has several limitations, including superimposition, the inability to visualize some parts of the prosthesis and to study them in the axial plane, and poor visualization of intra- and peri-articular soft tissues. This article describes the advantages offered by computed tomography and ultrasonography in this setting
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFoot and ankle problems are frequent, daily pathologies. Nowadays, imaging is able to put in evidence the most part of these affections, in a simple, non traumatic way. A good clinical examination is of highest importance to guide the imaging technique.
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