Letter to the editor involving the article ‘Piriformis muscle syndrome: A cross-sectional imaging study in 116 patients and evaluation of therapeutic outcome’

Key Points • Lack of use of local injection test to confirm the diagnosis may lead to miss the diagnosis of PMS of myofascial origin. • Piriformis muscle syndrome should be diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms, specific physical examinations, and positive response to local injection. • Sciati...

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Veröffentlicht in:	European radiology 2018-12, Vol.28 (12), p.5354-5355
Hauptverfasser:	Misirlioglu, Tugce Ozekli, Palamar, Deniz, Akgun, Kenan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cross-Sectional Studies Diagnosis Diagnostic Radiology Disease Management Entrapment Humans Imaging Injection Internal Medicine Interventional Radiology Letter to the Editor Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods Medicine Medicine & Public Health Muscles Neuroradiology Physical examinations Piriformis Muscle Syndrome - diagnosis Piriformis Muscle Syndrome - therapy Radiology Sciatic nerve Sciatic Nerve - diagnostic imaging Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods Ultrasound
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Zusammenfassung:	Key Points • Lack of use of local injection test to confirm the diagnosis may lead to miss the diagnosis of PMS of myofascial origin. • Piriformis muscle syndrome should be diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms, specific physical examinations, and positive response to local injection. • Sciatic nerve entrapment is not a must in the diagnosis of PMS and PMS is mostly myofascial in origin.
ISSN:	0938-7994 1432-1084
DOI:	10.1007/s00330-018-5554-4