MR arthrography of acetabular cartilage delamination in femoroacetabular cam impingement
MR arthrography of acetabular cartilage delamination in femoroacetabular cam impingement
复制标题
DOI:
10.1148/radiol.2491080093
复制
发表时间:
2008-10-01
期刊:
影响因子:
19.7
通讯作者:
Hodler, Juerg
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Pfirrmann, Christian W. A.;Duc, Sylvain R.;Hodler, Juerg
Purpose: To retrospectively assess the frequency and performance of magnetic resonance (MR) arthrography to help diagnose acetabular cartilage delamination in femoroacetabular impingement (FAI).Materials and Methods: Institutional review board approval and informed consent were waived for this retrospective study. Forty-four consecutive patients with FAI of the cam type were included (mean age, 30.7 years; range, 16-49 years), including 30 men (mean age, 30.5 years; range, 16-49 years) and 14 women (mean age, 31.4 years; range, 18-48 years). The inclusion criteria were no previous surgery, surgery within 3 months after MR imaging, and availability of a detailed surgical report with acetabular cartilage findings. MR arthrographic findings were assessed independently by two blinded readers. Findings at surgery served as reference standard. Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and K statistics for interobserver agreement were calculated.Results: At surgery, acetabular cartilage delamination was seen in 23 (52%) of 44 patients (mean size of cartilage flap from acetabular rim, 7.6 mm; range, 2-30 mm). At MR, patients with fluid signal intensity under the cartilage delamination had a respective sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 22%, 95%, and 57% for reader 1 and 30%, 95%, and 61% for reader 2. A hypointense line in the acetabular cartilage on sagittal three-dimensional double-echo steadystate images with water excitation demonstrated moderate diagnostic performance (respective sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 70%, 57%, and 64% for reader 1 and 70%, 62%, and 66% for reader 2). Hypointense areas in the acetabular cartilage were quite specific on both coronal intermediate-weighted fat-saturated images (respective sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 52%, 90%, and 70% for reader 1 and 74%, 90%, and 82% for reader 2) and coronal T1-weighted images (respective sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 35%, 90%, and 61% for reader 1 and 61%, 95%, and 77% for reader 2).Conclusion: Cartilage delamination is common in patients undergoing surgery for FAI. Fluid under the cartilage delamination is a specific but rare finding. Hypointense areas in the acetabular cartilage seen on intermediate-weighted fat-saturated or T1-weighted images appear to be helpful diagnostic criteria. (c) RSNA, 2008.