Abstract
Institutional review board approval was received and informed consent was not required for this Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant study. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively assess the time efficiency of three-dimensional volume-rendered images obtained from multi-detector row computed tomographic data for the diagnosis of peroneal tendon subluxation or dislocation by using the consensus interpretation of multiplanar reformatted (MPR) images as the reference standard. The reference standard was provided by two musculoskeletal radiologists, and two less experienced readers evaluated 37 images in 32 patients (24 men, eight women; mean age, 41 years; age range, 18-75 years) with acute calcaneal fractures. An analysis of variance was used to compare interpretation time, and the Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to analyze diagnostic difficulty. The average time required for diagnosis was significantly shorter with volume-rendered images than with MPR images (reader 1: 42 vs 78 seconds, P<.001; reader 2: 50 vs 69 seconds, P<.01).
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