11 January 2021 : Clinical Research
Magnetic Resonance Imaging has Better Accuracy in Detecting New-Onset Rib Fractures as Compared to Computed Tomography
Tao Zhang1ABCDEF, Jing Wu1ABCDEF, Yu-Chen Chen1CEF, Xinying Wu1AD, Lingquan Lu1ABCDEF*, Cunnan Mao1ABCDDOI: 10.12659/MSM.928463
Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e928463
Figure 2 A 51-year-old female patient, admitted to the Emergency Department after a traffic accident, was found to have a type II rib fracture. (A, B) Schematic diagram of type I fracture in the inflammatory stage and the callus-forming stage. (C) At 33 days after the trauma, intraosseous callus formation (arrow) in the left third rib and no obvious cortical fracture were observed in the CT rescanning, oblique-axial plane. (D) On the day of the trauma, CT scanning revealed no obvious abnormalities of the third rib. (E, F) MRI 2 days after the trauma showed intramedullary high-signal intensities (arrow) on T2-STIR and T2-SPAIR sequences with oblique-axial scanning.