Textures & Patterns
This tissue is often described as looking like a container of “nature’s candy.”
What is a nerve in cross-section?
Associated findings include periosteal, edema, posterior acoustic, shadowing, and cortical disruption.
What is a stress fracture?
When seen in a joint, the simple form of this finding looks dark as night.
What is an effusion?
This front to back maneuver of the ultrasound probe is commonly used to resolve anisotropy.
What is a heel toe maneuver?
If the ultrasound beam is less than perpendicular to the structure of interest, this artifact will come into play.
What is anisotropy?
This Colorado based phsyiatrist is often referred to as the godfather of physiatric sonographers.
Who is Scott Primack, DO?
This tissue appears as the bristles of a brush in cross-section and has having a dense fibular, echo texture in long axis.
What is a tendon?
If you see a sag sign, and an interface sign in the same image, you likely have this type of tendon tear.
What is a full thickness tear?
This benign finding often has a thick gooey texture and can be found just about anywhere.
What is a ganglion cyst?
Adjusting the probe back-and-forth in the corona plane is referred to as this.
What is tilting or wagging?
Reverberation off a metal object produces this artifact.
What is ring down or reverberation artifact?
The author of several textbooks, this buckeye is a renowned electromyography and sonographer.
Who is Jeff Strakowski MD?
In cross-section, this tissue could be an impressionist painting.
What is a muscle?
This malady often renders it affected tissue fat, dark and lacking its typical fibular architecture.
What is tendinopathy?
This fluid filled structure was named after a 19 century surgeon not a culinary profession.
What is a baker cyst?
This sensitive modality on an ultrasound machine is used to pick up low flow in blood vessels.
What is power Doppler?
When the ultrasound beam passes through a fluid collection, the tissue beneath is affected by this artifact.
What is posterior acoustic enhancement or increased through transmission?
This Elkins award winner and now entrepreneur is responsible for the Mayo Clinic dynasty of sonographers.
Who is Jay Smith, MD?
A delicate fibular pattern in appearance, this tissue keeps the joint together.
What is a ligament?
Disrupted architecture, fiber, retraction, and blood are often seen in this soft tissue injury.
What is a muscle tear?
This cartilaginous condition can be differentiated from gout by its location.
What is chondrocalcinosis?
What it lacks in depth it gives back in resolution.
What is a high frequency probe
A harbinger of pathology, this finding is a form of posterior acoustic enhancement and is produced between two tissues with similar reflectivity.
What is an interface sign?
This Italian duo wrote the definitive tome of ultrasound.
Who are Bianchi and Martinoli
This flying animal’s snout is often used to describe attended at its insertion.
What is a birds beak?
Often difficult to see in static imaging, dynamic testing may be the best way to demonstrate a disruption in this tissue.
What is a ligament?
This finding at the bone tendon interface results from ongoing tension.
What is an enthesophyte?
Am I seeing double? This setting is ideal for comparing side to side structures.
What is dual screen imaging?
Seen at the top of the field, this expensive artifact is due to transducer malfunction.
What is crystal dropout?
This sonographer is the father of the AAPM&R ultrasound step program and the author of an atlas of cross-sectional ultrasound.
Who is John Cianca MD?