Diagnosis of Internal Derangement of the Knee: Volume Isotropic Turbo Spin-Echo Acquisition MRI With Fat Suppression Versus Without Fat Suppression

Abstract

Three-dimensional VISTA MRI has higher specificity than FS-VISTA imaging for evaluation of medial meniscal tears and cartilaginous defects.

10‐Min 3D Turbo Spin Echo MRI of the Knee in Children: Arthroscopy‐Validated Accuracy for the Diagnosis of Internal Derangement

“…The overall performance of our 10‐min MRI protocol for the detection and characterization of cartilage defects was similar to arthroscopy‐validated sensitivities (66–92%), specificities (39–98%), and accuracies (78–97%) of 3D MRI in adults . In contrast to the performance for the detection of cartilage defects, we found a lower performance for the characterization of partial‐thickness cartilage defects, with a sensitivity of 59%, which falls within the range of sensitivities of 50–88% that were reported in other 2D and 3D MRI studies .…”

“…Although comparison with the performance of 3D MRI for the diagnosis of internal derangement in adults is limited due to differences between immature and mature knees, the diagnostic performance of our 10‐min 3D MRI protocol compares favorably as well. Prior studies in adults found sensitivities, specificities, and accuracies of 85–100%, 68–95%, and 79–97% for diagnosing medial meniscal tears, 58–95%, 82–96%, and 74–94% for lateral meniscal tears, 90–100%, 80–98%, and 89–99% for anterior cruciate ligament tears, and 100%, 97–100%, and 97–100% for posterior cruciate ligament tears . Similar to previous studies of 3D MRI, there was a very good interreader agreement in our study .…”

Cruciate ligament injuries of the knee: A meta‐analysis of the diagnostic performance of 3D MRI

“…5,30 The resulting 22 studies consisting of 1298 MRI examinations with 3D sequences were included in our metaanalysis. 3,5,6,8,[12][13][14][15][16][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] A PRISMA flow chart displaying process of literature review, study screening, and study selection is shown in Fig. 1.…”

Diagnostic Performance of Three-dimensional MRI for Depicting Cartilage Defects in the Knee: A Meta-Analysis

“…Of the 80 eligible studies, 53 studies were excluded for the following reasons: inappropriate patient population or cadaver (four studies), inappropriate and inconsistent imaging (four studies), no arthroscopy or surgery (five studies), 2 3 2 diagnostic table could not be retrieved (four studies), similar data were used (one study), review articles and investigative technique studies (15 studies), and duplicate studies (20 studies). Finally, 27 studies were included in our meta-analysis (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(11)(12)(13)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38). Figure 1 is an overview of the literature search and selection process.…”