Imaging

New MRI technology may improve ability to diagnose two football-related knee injuries

Published in Biotech Business Week, December 26th, 2005

New imaging discoveries may improve physicians' ability to diagnose and treat two serious knee injuries affecting football players, according to two studies presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

In the first study, researchers reviewed 101 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) knee exams of 330 candidates for the 2005 professional football draft and found 57 tears of the lateral meniscus, a flat, disc-shaped ligament that supports the outer knee joint, and 26 tears of the medial meniscus, which supports the inner knee joint.

"These findings are remarkable because the authors of most previous studies have...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2005-12-26)

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