Diverse bone scan abnormalities in shin splints

Journal Article · Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1979 · J. Nucl. Med.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5452328

Spencer, R P; Levinson, E D; Baldwin, R D; Sziklas, J J; Witek, J T; Rosenberg, R

Four young patients who presented with pain over the anterior compartment of the legs, gave a recent athletic history suggesting stress fractures. Although radiographs were initially normal in all four cases, the bone scintigrams were positive. The individual findings, however, were quite different. In one there was a single focal area of increased radioactivity in each of the tibias; the second patient had uneven uptake of radiotracer and several foci of accumulation in the fibulas; the third showed diffuse linear tibial uptake suggesting periosteal lesions; and the fourth case revealed uptake in the lateral malleolus and in bones of the foot.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington
• OSTI ID: 5452328
• Journal Information: J. Nucl. Med.; (United States), Vol. 20:12
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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