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Occult fractures as well as stress fractures are common sports injuries. Occult fractures are fractures not revealed on radiographs. Stress fractures can be divided in fatigue and insufficiency fractures, depending on their pathogenesis. Fatigue fractures result from repeated abnormal stresses on a normal bone. Insufficiency fractures result from a normal stresses applied to bones weakened. Various authors have reported ultrasound as having a high sensitivity for the investigation of fractures, but CT and MRI are the examination of choice to evaluate occult and stress fractures.
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Draghi, F. (2019). Ultrasonography of Occult and Stress Fractures in Sports Medicine. In: Ultrasonography of the Lower Extremity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14991-8_5
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