2000 Volume 24 Issue 3 Pages 363-366
We evaluated the findings of MR imaging (MRI) of professional baseball players with omalgia. MR images of 30 shoulders of 30 professional baseball players with omalgin were taken. Right shoulders were 26, left shoulders were 4. There were 17 pitchers,1 catcher and 12 fielders. The average age was 24.5 years (range,18-32). We examined their high signal intensities of the supraspinatus (oblique coronal view) and their cystic changes in the greater tuberosity (obilique coronal view and axial view).We also statistically examined the relations between their changes and their positions.
High signal intensities of the supraspinatus were found in 13 shoulders (deep surface: 8, intratendinous: 2, superficial surface: 3). Cystic changes in the greater tuberosity were found in 15 shoulders (poster ior: 13, middle: 2). Statistically there was no relation between their positions, high signal intensities of the supraspinatus and their cystic changes in the greater tuberosity.
High signal intensities of the supraspinatus on the deep surface and cystic changes in the posterior greater tuberosity were characteristic in the professional baseball players.
