Longitudinal tibial stress fractures

Longitudinal tibial stress fractures

SUMMARY The tibia is a fairly common site for stress fractures of both the fatigue and insufficiency types. The majority are transverse or, less frequently, oblique. The present report outlines four cases of vertical stress fractures, an orientation that is very uncommon and leads to bone scan findi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Australasian radiology 1998-08, Vol.42 (3), p.188-190
Hauptverfasser: Daunt, Nicholas, Gribbin, Denis, Slater, Greg S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Aged
Female
fracture
Fractures, Stress - diagnosis
Humans
Male
Radiopharmaceuticals
stress fracture
Technetium Tc 99m Medronate
tibia
Tibial Fractures - diagnosis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Zusammenfassung:SUMMARY The tibia is a fairly common site for stress fractures of both the fatigue and insufficiency types. The majority are transverse or, less frequently, oblique. The present report outlines four cases of vertical stress fractures, an orientation that is very uncommon and leads to bone scan findings which can be misleading.
ISSN:0004-8461
1440-1673
DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1673.1998.tb00489.x