Radionuclide bone scanning is the second most frequently performed radionuclide study in childhood. There are a wide variety of indications, many advantages, and few disadvantages. Functional as well as anatomical information is obtained.' Bone scanning is particularly valuable in the diagnosis of inflammatory conditions, trauma, and in the investigation of occult bone pain and vascular insult'...

A segment of tibia 4.5 centimetres long was removed from one hind limb of fifteen dogs. It was then replaced and the main vasculature was restored by a microsurgical technique. In eight controls the segment was replaced without such restoration. In two-thirds of the former cases the microvascular reconstruction was successful; the rate of infection was found to be reduced, bone union was guaran...

Skeletal scintigraphy (bone scanning) is a useful adjunct in the diagnosis of disease states, such as osteomyelitis, and in the evaluation of occult fractures. Certain conditions can alter the appearance of bone scans, such as age of the patient, prior use of antibiotics, concomitant diseases, and disruption of the vascular supply. Three patients whose clinical problems highlight diagnostic pro...

Although bone scanning is a test primarily concerned with skeletal abnormalities, important nonosseous findings are occasionally present on the images. To gauge the significance of such nonosseous uptake and, in particular, to determine whether these findings contain useful diagnostic information, the technical and medical staff in nuclear medicine must recognize the various patterns of nonbony...

RESULTS: Four hundred patients were referred with a diagnosis of “lymphedema”; 70% were female and 30% were children. Lymphedema was confirmed in 73% of the cohort: primary (56%) and secondary (44%). Twenty-seven percent of patients labeled with “lymphedema” had another condition. Before referral, only 4% of the cohort underwent lymphoscintigraphy (the gold standard diagnostic test for lymphede...

Lymphoedema is a life-long disease which may be improved but not healed by our therapy. Therefore it seems to be desirable to ascertain the clinical suspicion of lymphoedema or to rule out this diagnosis at least once in the life of a patient suffering from chronic swelling of the extremities. The most appropriate methods for that purpose are lymphoscintigraphy and indirect lymphography. Radion...

OBJECTIVE To assess the new quantitative bone scan parameters as markers of Charcot neuroosteoarthropathy (CNO) activity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Forty-two patients with acute (n = 21) and nonacute (n = 21) CNO underwent quantitative bone scanning. Patients with acute CNO were followed for 3-12 months and bone scans were repeated after treatment. New quantitative parameters were assessed ...

INTRODUCTION: Lymphoscintigraphy is the gold-standard test for diagnosing lymphedema, and is 96% sensitive for detecting the disease. The major abnormal lymphoscintigraphic findings on the test include delayed transit time to the inguinal or axillary lymph nodes (>1 hour) and dermal backflow. A universal protocol for the test does not exist, our protocol obtains images at 1, 2, and 4 hour inter...

We report two cases of subchondral insufficiency fractures of the femoral head. Clinical manifestations of this lesion are nonspecific. Radionuclide bone scanning demonstrates early hyperactivity. Initial roentgenograms are usually normal. Magnetic resonance imaging establishes the diagnosis and rules out other conditions.

BACKGROUND Neonatal cerebral imaging is a sensitive technique for evaluating brain injury in the neonatal period. When performing computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, sedation is needed to prevent motion artifacts. However, general anesthesia in neonates carries significant risks and requires a complex logistic approach that often limits the use of these modalities. The developmen...