Comparative study of high frequency ultrasound and MRI in the diagnosis of rotator cuff tears / 实用放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To comparative evaluation the application value of high frequency ultrasound (HFU)and magnetic reso-nance imaging (MRI)in the diagnosis of rotator cuff tears(RCT).Methods 86 patients of unilateral RCT confirmed by shoulder ar-throscopy were chosen.The detection rate by HFU and MRI before the surgery was compared.Shoulder arthroscopic finding was as the evaluation standard,the accuracy of HFU and MRI in the diagnosis of RCT was calculated which includedtotal (full and partial) RCT,full RCT,partial RCT.Chi-square test was used to compare the accuracy rate.Results Among 86 patients,30 patients with full RCT and 56 patients with partial RCT were detected by shoulder arthroscopy,in which 28 patients with full RCT and 43 patients with partial RCT were found by HFU,and 28 patients with full RCT and 5 1 patients with partial RCT were found by MRI respec-tively.The accuracy of HFU and MRI in the diagnosis of total,full,partial tear RCT were 82.6%,93.3%,76.8% and 91.9%,93.3%, 91.6% respectively.There was no significant difference between HFU and MRI in diagnosing total and full RCT(P >0.05),the ac-curacy on HFU in diagnosing partial RCT was slightly lower than that on MRI (P <0.05).Conclusion Both HFU and MRI have relatively high accuracy in diagnosing full RCT,HFU is slightly lower than MRI in diagnosing partial RCT.