Abstract
The high sensitivity of bone scintigraphy in the diagnosis of fractures, sports injuries, and operative lesions of bone is well documented. The examination is particularly valuable in the study of bone contusion, stress fracture, enthesopathy, and covert fractures in the rib cage, sternum, spine, and facial bones. Rib injuries including retractor compression and severed costovertebral joints during open chest surgery constitute another important indication. Many of these lesions are either elusory or invisible on ordinary radiograms. Bone scintigraphy reinforced with the pinhole technique appears to be the best primary test for these seemingly trivial yet worrisome pathologies. In addition, it often plays a significant role in assesssing the vascularity and viability of fracture fragments or graft bones as well as callus formation.
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Bahk, Y.W. (1994). Traumatic and Sports Injuries of Bone. In: Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06294-4_14
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