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From: MRI findings prior to return to play as predictors of reinjury in professional athletes: a novel decision-making tool

Fig. 3

A 21-year-old right leg dominant football player. He presented during a training session, with tenderness in the middle third of the posterior aspect of the left thigh, and inability to continue training. A, B Axial and coronal T2-weighted fat-saturated images from a baseline MRI show myotendinous injury of the intramuscular portion of the proximal MTJ of the biceps femoris long head, I Mp 3r 0 (MLG-R classification [33]). There is a transversal tear of the connective tissue with loss of tension (arrowhead) and interstitial and intermuscular oedema (arrows). C, D Axial and coronal T2-weighted fat-saturated images of the pre-RTP MR (37 days post-injury), show a small transversal peripheral tendinous tear (arrowhead) with a trace interstitial oedema. E, F Reinjury 1 day later. Axial and coronal T2-weighted fat-saturated images show a thicker transversal tendinous tear with fibre muscle tear (arrowhead) and more interstitial oedema and intermuscular oedema (arrows)

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