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Stress Fracture Bone Scan

  • See Also
  1. Stress Fracture
  2. Stress Fracture XRay
  3. Stress Fracture CT
  4. Stress Fracture MRI
  • Indication
  1. Stress Fracture suspected
  • Advantages
  1. Low cost
  2. High Test Sensitivity
  • Disadvantages
  1. More radiation exposure than XRay
  2. False postiives with Osteomyelitis, bone growths
  • Epidemiology
  1. Sensitivity: 100%
    1. False Negative case reports exist
  2. Specificity: Poor
  • Course
  1. Bone scan remains abnormal months after healing
  • References
  1. Ishibashi (2002) Clin J Sports Med 12(2): 79-84 [PubMed]