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From: Traumatic injuries of thigh and calf muscles in athletes: role and clinical relevance of MR imaging and ultrasound

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A 28-year-old tennis player presenting with calf pain, clinically diagnosed as a grade 1 injury. Axial FS T2-w TSE images demonstrate areas of hyperintensity with feathery appearance, consistent with a strain of the soleus muscle (SO, arrowhead) and also a strain of the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle with intramuscular oedema (GM, thick arrow). Further epifascial haematoma and oedema at the posterior aspects of the medial gastrocnemius are depicted (thin arrows)

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