Bucket Handle Tear Mri Coronal

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Bucket handle tear mri coronal. Chronic anterior cruciate ligament acl tear might be difficult to diagnose on mri. In other words the tear widens or gaps. Unfortunately bucket handle tears of the meniscus are one of the more frequently missed tear patterns with mr imaging. Bucket handle tears are quite important clinically as locking of the joint often occurs necessitating arthroscopic treatment of the tear.

A bucket handle tear is a full thickness tear of the meniscus that most often happens in the inner portion of your medial meniscus. Bucket hand tears can manifest as sensitive but not specific signs 1. This type of tear is typically associated with trauma and is often found in conjunction with acl tear or insufficiency when medial meniscus is involved but can occur in isolation. A bucket handle tear is a type of vertical longitudinal tear of the meniscus with displacement of the inner fragment into the intercondylar notch.

The medial meniscus is more often involved than the lateral meniscus. According to the wheeless textbook of orthopaedics bucket. They more commonly occur in the medial meniscus and are often associated with anterior cruciate ligament acl tears. In original mri report this was described as displaced meniscal flap tear but at arthroscopy it was described as displaced meniscal bucket handle tear.