MRI characteristics of adductor longus lesions in professional football players and prognostic factors for return to play.

Purpose: To correctly define through Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), diagnosis, staging and prognosis of the adductor longus (AL) acute lesions and to identify a correlation between Return to Play (RTP) and sport-related injury predisposing conditions and complications.

Materials And Methods: Twenty professional football players with acute groin pain and clinical suspicion of AL injury subsequent to sport's activity were evaluated. MRI examinations were performed by one and reviewed by other two radiologists with more than 10 years of experience.

[Color Doppler ultrasonography versus angiography in leg aneurysms].

The authors compared color-Doppler US with angiographic findings in the study of peripheral lower limbs aneurysms. Twelve cases were observed over a 2-year period of time. In each case, the combination of B-mode and color-Doppler US permitted the accurate evaluation of the aneurysm and of the possible compression of adjacent vessels.