Bucket Handle Tear Mri Images

The posterior portion was parallel and beneath the posterior cruciate ligament on both sagittal and coronal images.

Bucket handle tear mri images. Bucket hand tears can manifest as sensitive but not specific signs 1. In such cases the lack of two consecutive bow ties on sagittal images may be your best clue for the detection of a bucket handle tear. Eighteen consecutive cases of displaced bucket handle tears of the medial meniscus diagnosed by mr had a characteristic low signal band extending across the joint and projecting over the medial tibial eminence. Bucket handle meniscal tears are a type of displaced longitudinal meniscal tear where the inner part is displaced centrally.

Absent bow tie sign on sagittal view. 2 the absent bow tie sign. Ca helms a laorr and wd cannon jr. Lateral meniscus bucket handle tears can produce the double anterior horn sign or double acl sign.

Indicated with an arrow on image 1. One is the double pcl sign which results from the displaced fragment moving into the intercondylar notch and appears like a second pcl anteroinferior to the pcl. They more commonly occur in the medial meniscus and are often associated with anterior cruciate ligament acl tears. There are several key findings on mri.

A displaced longitudinal tear is a bucket handle tear. The patient injured during soccer. The mri examination confirmed the complete tear of the. Medial meniscus bucket handle tears can result in a double pcl sign.

Tears can be characterized by length depth shape gap displacement stability dysplasia discoid.