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Ligament Injury: Can MRI scan be wrong ?

2018-04-04 15:39:22
I have been diagnosed with a complete ACL tear according to an MRI. However when the doctor performed a Lachlan test and others he found no issue. He infact thought it was more of a PCL tear with physical examination. Can the MRI report be wrong or read wrongly by the Doctor ?
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MRI report is not the golden line in terms of your diagnosis. Daignosis is essentially a mix up of history, clinical, MRI and diagnostic Arthroscopy. Final diagnosis may be different from ROM provisional diagnosis.
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Based on your symptoms and examination, taking MRI into consideration, a diagnosis is made up. It is not uncommon to finds MRI and clinical tests not correlating. Do not worry.

Answered2018-04-04 18:43:00

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get another review from a sports specialist orthopaedic surgeon. get the MRI along for them to show you on the scan what are the issues.

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