📌 Grade 2 MCL Injury: MRI Findings
✅ Key Findings
- Displacement of ligament fibers from bone
- High signal edema/hemorrhage around MCL fibers
- Ligamentous attenuation or fluid separating torn fibers
- Intraligamentous hyperintensity and thickening
- Focal or segmental ligament thickening
- Possible bone contusions
✅ Spectrum of Injury
- Grade 2 represents a wide range from microscopic to near-complete tears
- Most heterogeneous and difficult-to-characterize
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