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Bone stress: a radionuclide imaging perspective. [/sup 99m/Tc-pyrophosphate]

Journal Article · · Radiology; (United States)
OSTI ID:6137530
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Thirty-five college athletes with lower leg pain underwent radiography and radionuclide studies to rule out a stress fracture. Their asymptomatic extremities and 13 pain-free athletes served as controls. Four main patterns were observed: (a) sharply marginated scintigraphic abnormalities and positive radiographs; (b) sharply marginated scintigraphic abnormalities and negatives radiographs; (c) ill-defined scintigraphic abnormalities and negative radiographs; and (d) negative radionuclide images and negative radiographs. Since the patients with the first two patterns were otherwise identical medically, the authors feel that this scintigraphic appearance is characterisic of bone stress in the appropriate clinical setting, regardless of the radiographic findings. A schema is proposed to explain the occurrence of positive radionuclide images and negative radiographs in the same patient, using a broad conceptual approach to the problem of bone stress.

Research Organization:
Presbyterian Uni. Hosptial, Pittsburgh, PA
OSTI ID:
6137530
Journal Information:
Radiology; (United States), Journal Name: Radiology; (United States) Vol. 132:2; ISSN RADLA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL STRESS
BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY
BODY
BONE FRACTURES
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DATA
DATA FORMS
DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
DRUGS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INFORMATION
INJURIES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOLATED VALUES
ISOMERIC NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
MEDICINE
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
NUCLEI
NUMERICAL DATA
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PATIENTS
PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS
PYROPHOSPHATES
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIOLOGY
RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
SCINTISCANNING
SKELETAL DISEASES
SKELETON
TECHNETIUM 99
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
TIBIA
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES