Use of oblique sagittal and coronal weighted images for diagnosis and grading of ACL graft injury

Autor: Mennatallah ElSayed, Amr Samir Rashwan, Heba Kamal
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Vol 53, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2090-4762
DOI: 10.1186/s43055-022-00790-4
Popis: Abstract Background This study was done to evaluate the value of adding the oblique sagittal and oblique coronal MRI to the standard MRI knee protocol for evaluation of suspected ACL graft injuries. Results This was a cross-sectional analytic study where we reviewed 36 MRI knee examinations of 36 patients (30 males, 6 females, age range: 17–60 years, mean age: 26 years) who were subjected to ACL reconstruction and follow-up arthroscopy. Two experienced radiologists, blinded to the results of each other, evaluated the status and the severity of the ACL graft injury using the routine knee MRI (protocol A) and using the routine MRI after adding the oblique sagittal and coronal imaging (protocol B). Weighted kappa statistics were used to evaluate the diagnostic accuracies of the knee MRI before and after the addition of the oblique sagittal and coronal weighted images (protocol A and protocol B, respectively) and to assess the interobserver agreement. The weighted kappa values according to the routine knee MRI were 0.357 (reader 1) and 0.399 (reader 2). The inclusion of additional oblique coronal imaging increased the weighted kappa values to 0.505 (reader 1) and 0.528 (reader 2). The interobserver agreement weighted kappa value also increased from 0.606 to 0.759 by adding the oblique sagittal and coronal imaging to the routine knee MRI examination. Conclusion The additional use of oblique sagittal and coronal MRI of the knee improves the diagnostic accuracy for diagnosing and grading ACL graft injury with the arthroscopy used as a gold standard.
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