Rapid diagnosis of “Fatigue” stress fractures using bone scintigraphy: A practical approach
Journal Title: International Journal of Orthopaedics Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Stress fractures can broadly classified into “fatigue” or “insufficiency” fractures depending on baseline bone health and amount of physical activity. Of these fatigue stress fractures present with a classical history of increased physical activity in healthy bones followed by pain typically after a few weeks. Imaging modalities include plain radiographs, MRI, CT Scan, Bone Scintigraphy (Scan) and Ultrasound. We discuss a short case series and explore key points for all these modalities and propose a simple algorithm for rapid diagnosis of fatigue stress fractures involving three phase bone scan.DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/ortho.2017.v3.i2h.72
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Mohit Dhingra, Vandana Kumar Dhingra, Arvind Moga
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