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Abstract
The elbow is a hinge-pivot joint with complex anatomy. It has three bony components and it is surrounded
by numerous ligaments, tendons and muscles.
Although the elbow is one of the most stable joints in the body, elbow abnormalities are increasing as the number of people participating in sports is rising.
This however, gave the elbow joint its place in sport medicine, as many cases of elbow joint lesions are due to
sport related activities, for example medial and lateral epicondylitis (Golf and Tennis elbow respectively), and
muscle tendons tears, plus bony fractures and degenerative
diseases as other joints of the body.
Conventional radiographs though widely available and easily interpreted, have many limitations as inability for soft tissue assessments, and missing occult fractures. In contrary to ultrasound where it lacks bony assessment plus
it needs highly qualified personnel.
MRI is a newly introduced modality that enables both bony and soft tissue assessments. The rapid evolution
of MRI technology with the advent of dedicated surface coils and rapid pulse sequences such as fast spin echo
(FSE), and new pulse sequences as STIR images have brought MRI to the forefront of the imaging modalities of
elbow joint lesions.