Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. univ. Head of Foot and Ankle Devision at the Musculoskeletal University Center Munich (MUM)
Check out our new publication "A systematic review of studies on the diagnostics and classification system used in surgically treated, acute, isolated, unstable syndesmotic injury: a plea for uniform definition of syndesmotic injuries." has just been published with EFORT Open access. Diagnosing syndesmotic instability still remains a challenge in clinical practice. Although several studies have recently focused on WBCT to diagnose syndesmotic instability, this technique is still not widely available and the image analysis is not part of the available packages. Based on a systematic review, we present our best-evidence approach to diagnose and classify syndesmotic injuries at the MUM Muskuloskelettales Universitätszentrum München. You have full access to the publication at: https://lnkd.in/dPp-UcJT Happy for any feedback!
Excellent job! I also add dynamic ultrasound (of course dependend on expertise of performer) to this algorithm. What's your comment on that? Pretty high percentages sensitivity/ specificity......
Fully agree! Maybe interesting to start additional research (inter/ intra-observer agreement, reproducibilty) of ultrasound vs MRI/ERS in a partnership.....
Honorary Professor at National University of Ireland, Galway
8moHow do you standardise the external rotation test?? You also don’t mention diagnostic arthroscopy?