A 17-year-old teenager, a professional hockey player, injured his left elbow while playing hockey, with a preliminary diagnosis of bursitis, was sent for ultrasound.
In the projection of complaints of left elbow joint area trauma on ultrasound, a thickening and an increase in the echogenicity of the subcutaneous fatty tissue (contusion) with an anechoic area (differential diagnosis: hematoma, olecranon bursitis), an increase in the echogenicity of the tendon of the triceps muscle of the shoulder (tendinitis / tendinopathy) is also visualized, also nearby there is a local thickening of the synovium of the elbow joint (synovitis).
