Early acute hematogenous osteomyelitis detected by bone scintigraphy but not MRI.

Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. wichana@gmail.com

Clinical nuclear medicine 2013 Apr

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Early diagnosis of acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (AHO) is crucial for effective management and to reduce the potential risk of lifelong deformities in pediatric patients. Both bone scintigraphy and MRI as current diagnostic imaging claim their high sensitivity in early detection of the disease. We present a 9-year-old girl patient with AHO in the distal right tibia, which was demonstrated on bone scintigraphy while a subsequent MRI on the same day was negative.

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Wichana Chamroonrat, Hongming Zhuang. Early acute hematogenous osteomyelitis detected by bone scintigraphy but not MRI. Clinical nuclear medicine. 2013 Apr;38(4):285-8