Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Programme

Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Programme

Our team, comprising of radiologists and radiographers, collaborates with several SGH medical disciplines, such as the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Hand Surgery and Department of Dermatology, investigating the diagnostic performance of advanced ultrasound techniques in the evaluation of rotator cuff problems, trigger finger, sarcopenia as well as differentiating benign from malignant skin tumours.

Contact

Kindly contact the team consisting of A/Prof Png Meng Ai, Dr Ooi Chin Chin and Ms Kho Ying Ying for more information.

• Dr Png Meng Ai – png.meng.ai@singhealth.com.sg
• Dr Ooi Chin Chin – ooi.chin.chin@sgh.com.sg
• Ms Kho Ying Ying – kho.ying.ying@sgh.com.sg

Percutaneous guided US tenotomy for Tennis elbow

Using a novel, minimally invasive technique that uses focused ultrasound energy to treat recalcitrant lateral elbow tendinopathy, a total of 20 patients underwent treatment. All patients had diagnostic ultrasound performed and answered questionnaires for functional assessment. The majority have been followed up to 7 years post procedure. One of our radiologists, Dr P Chandra Mohan, has been working closely together with our collaborators of Orthopaedics in publishing interesting findings in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Contact

Please contact Dr P Chandra Mohan at chandra.mohan@singhealth.com.sg for more information.  

Publications:

1. Kho YY, Ooi CC, Too CW, Ma VC, Abu Bakar R, Lim CY, Tang PY, Oh CC. Advanced multimodal ultrasound for pre-operative assessment of skin tumours: A case series. Ultrasound. 2024 Nov 30:1742271X241289021. doi: 10.1177/1742271X241289021. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39624619; PMCID: PMC11608425.
2. Tan YK, Lim GH, Ooi CC, Ma VC, Vora BMK. Thermographic and ultrasound assessment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: can thermography detect subclinical synovitis at the wrist? BMC Rheumatol. 2024 Nov 19;8(1):62. doi: 10.1186/s41927-024-00435-1. PMID: 39558420; PMCID: PMC11575090.
3. Gazali NA, Abu Bakar R, Tan IC, Jiang B, Lee HE, Ho HP, Lim SY, Cheong WK, Liaw SC, Ooi CC. Comparing conventional abdominal ultrasound scanning versus a ROBotic assisted UltraSonography sysTem (ROBUST). WFUMB Ultrasound Open. 2024 Jun. 2 (1). ISSN 2949-6683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wfumbo.2024.100040.
4. Ooi CC, Wong SK, Ma VC, Tan GM, Png MA. Re: The prevalence of neovascularity in rotator cuff tendinopathy: comparing conventional Doppler with superb microvascular imaging. A reply. Clin Radiol. 2022 Dec;77(12):e841-e842. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2022.08.142. Epub 2022 Oct 2. PMID: 36198515.
5. Ooi CC, Wong SK, Ma VC, Tan GM, Teng KQ, Mohamed SN, Png MA. The prevalence of neovascularity in rotator cuff tendinopathy: Comparing conventional Doppler with Superb Microvascular Imaging. Clin Radiol. 2022 Jun. 77 (6): e442-448
6. Ang BFH, Mohan PC, Png MA, Allen JC Jr, Howe TS, Koh JSB, Lee BP, Morrey BF. Ultrasonic Percutaneous Tenotomy for Recalcitrant Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy: Clinical and Sonographic Results at 90 Months: Response. Am J Sports Med. 2022 Feb;50(2):NP10-NP11. doi: 10.1177/03635465211049381. PMID: 35137635.
7. Ang BFH, Mohan PC, Png MA, Allen JC Jr, Howe TS, Koh JSB, Lee BP, Morrey BF. Ultrasonic Percutaneous Tenotomy for Recalcitrant Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy: Clinical and Sonographic Results at 90 Months. Am J Sports Med. 2021 Jun;49(7):1854-1860. doi: 10.1177/03635465211010158. Epub 2021 May 6.
8. Ooi CC, Schneider M, Malliaras P, Png MA, Chadwick M, Jones D, Venkatanarasimha NK, Connell D. Real-time sonoelastography evaluation of the Achilles tendon following ultrasound-guided platelet-rich plasma injection and eccentric exercise for the treatment of refractory Achilles tendinopathy. Ultrasound. 2019 Aug. 27(3) 138–147
9. Chuang XL, Ooi CC, Chin ST, Png MA, Wong SK, Tay SC, McGrouther DA. What triggers in trigger finger? The flexor tendons at the flexor digitorum superficialis bifurcation. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2017 Oct;70(10):1411-1419. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2017.05.037. Epub 2017 May 27. PMID: 28709917.
10. Seng C, Mohan PC, Koh SB, Howe TS, Lim YG, Lee BP, Morrey BF. Ultrasonic Percutaneous Tenotomy for Recalcitrant Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy: Sustainability and Sonographic Progression at 3 Years. Am J Sports Med. 2016 Feb;44(2):504-10. doi: 10.1177/0363546515612758. Epub 2015 Nov 24.
11. Ooi CC, Wong SK, Tan AB, Chin AY, Abu Bakar R, Goh SY, Mohan PC, Yap RT, Png MA. Diagnostic criteria of carpal tunnel syndrome using high-resolution ultrasonography: correlation with nerve conduction studies. Skeletal Radiol. 2014 Oct;43(10):1387-94. doi: 10.1007/s00256-014-1929-z. Epub 2014 Jun 12. PMID: 24915739.
12. Koh JS, Mohan PC, Howe TS, Lee BP, Chia SL, Yang Z, Morrey BF. Fasciotomy and surgical tenotomy for recalcitrant lateral elbow tendinopathy: early clinical experience with a novel device for minimally invasive percutaneous microresection. Am J Sports Med. 2013 Mar;41(3):636-44. doi: 10.1177/0363546512470625. Epub 2013 Jan 9.