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Outlines management implications of observations made at clinical examination and at integrated imaging, including radiographs, ultrasound and MRI of patients presenting with sports related musculoskeletal ailments. This book aims is to define the practical implications of findings identified at MRI and ultrasound in patients with sports injuries.

Sports medicine is acquiring an important role owing to the increasing number of sports-active people and professional athletes. Accurate diagnosis of the different pathological conditions is therefore of fundamental importance. This book provides an overview of the most frequently observed conditions and correlates them with sports activities, as well as documenting relatively unknown lesions of increasing significance. Diagnostic techniques are described and compared, and their roles defined; interpretative pitfalls are highlighted. All of the contributing authors have distinguished themselves in the field and have a deep knowledge of the problem involved in the diagnosis and classification of sports injuries.