A 53 year old male presented to his local doctor with an acute knee injury,limited knee movement and a haemoarthrosis.Patient did not have calf tenderness or clinical suspicion for deep vein thrombosis(DVT).He was ref...A 53 year old male presented to his local doctor with an acute knee injury,limited knee movement and a haemoarthrosis.Patient did not have calf tenderness or clinical suspicion for deep vein thrombosis(DVT).He was referred for a routine acute knee magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)scan.This MRI demonstrated a full thickness anterior cruciate ligament tear with additional findings,of a probable incidental DVT.The relevant MRI findings suggestive of DVT in this case included perivascular edema and expanded caliber of the involved medial gastronomical veins on the axial proton density fat suppressed sequence(Figure 1).展开更多
文摘A 53 year old male presented to his local doctor with an acute knee injury,limited knee movement and a haemoarthrosis.Patient did not have calf tenderness or clinical suspicion for deep vein thrombosis(DVT).He was referred for a routine acute knee magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)scan.This MRI demonstrated a full thickness anterior cruciate ligament tear with additional findings,of a probable incidental DVT.The relevant MRI findings suggestive of DVT in this case included perivascular edema and expanded caliber of the involved medial gastronomical veins on the axial proton density fat suppressed sequence(Figure 1).
