Listen to our two part episode on How to read Knee MRI + Operative Treatment of Meniscus Lesions as Dr. Bryan Saltzman gives us an excellent talk!
Dr. Bryan M Saltzman, MD is an Assistant Professor with Atrium Health Musculoskeletal Institute (MSKI)and currently holds an attending position at OrthoCarolina
In addition, Dr. Saltzman graduated from Rush Medical College with a doctorate in medicine and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He completed his Sports Medicine and Shoulder/Elbow Fellowship at OrthoCarolina, where he assisted in providing orthopaedic coverage and treatment for a host of Charlotte high school, collegiate, and professional teams.
Moreover, Dr. Saltzman is the Director of Sports Medicine Research at OrthoCarolina, where he has over 100 peer-reviewed articles to his credit. He is also the Head Team Physician for the Stumptown Athletic (National Independent Soccer Association) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC-Charlotte) 49ers Men’s Division I athletics.
This episode is a little different as we will have part 1 and part 2 featuring Dr. Saltzman! You can check out the videos below!
Goal of episode: To develop a baseline knowledge on how to read a knee MRI and the operative treatment of meniscus lesions.
We cover on how to read knee MRI’s, how to identify the following:
- MRI Basics
- T1/T2
- How normal tissues should look
- Meniscus on MRI
- Meniscus lesions
- Longitudinal meniscus tear
- Bucket Handle Tears
- Horizontal Tears
- Radial tears
- Vertical flap
- Horizontal flap
- Complex tears
- Root Tears
- Discoid meniscus
- Extruded Lateral Meniscus
- Parameniscal cysts
- Chondral lesions
- Chondral lesions- unstable OCD
- Contained OCD lesion
- Uncontained OCD lesion
- ACL Tear
- ACL
- ACL edema
- Tibial eminence
- Bony Avulsion
- PCL
- PCL/ACL
- MCL
- MCL on MRI
- MCL Sprain- grade I
- MCL sprain grade II
- MCL sprain grade III
- PLC
- PFL tears
We also talk about how to treat these meniscus lesions via arthroscopy!
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