How to Understand the Results of a Bone Scan: 13 Steps - wikiHow
2024年7月6日 · Common diagnoses that stem from abnormal bone scan results include: osteoporosis, bone fractures, bone cancer, bone infection, arthritis, Paget's disease (a bone disorder involving thickening and softening of bones) and avascular necrosis (death of bone due to lack of blood supply.
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Bone scan - Mayo Clinic
2024年4月2日 · A bone scan is a test that uses nuclear imaging to help diagnose and track several types of bone disease. Nuclear imaging involves using small amounts of radioactive substances, called radioactive tracers, a special camera that can detect the radioactivity and a …
Bone Lesions: Benign and Malignant Bone Growth Abnormalities
2020年10月2日 · Growth abnormalities in bone tissue known as bone lesions may be benign or malignant. What is a bone lesion? What is the difference between a benign and a malignant bone lesion? What is a bone tumor? Who gets benign bone lesions and who gets malignant lesions? What causes bone cancer? How are benign and malignant lesions diagnosed?
Imaging evaluation of the painful hip in adults - UpToDate
2023年4月20日 · In adults, hip pain may be caused by intraarticular disorders such as avascular necrosis (AVN), arthritis, loose bodies, labral tears; periarticular pathology such as tendinitis and bursitis; or extraarticular conditions such as referred pain from lumbar spine, as well as sacroiliac joint and nerve entrapment syndromes.
Imaging for Hip Pain | Radiology Techniques for Diagnosis - HSS
CT scans may be used to obtain presurgical measurements for a certain hip conditions, including femoroacetabular impingement (a condition in which the ball and socket of the hip joint rub together abnormally, thereby damaging the cartilage that lines the ends of the bones) or osteoid osteoma (a benign tumor).
Abnormal Bone Scan Results - Healthfully
A bone scan can often help physicians diagnose bone infections, or osteomyelitis, bone tumors and fractures. Bone scans are also helpful in looking for determining whether cancer has metastasized or spread to the bones. Results can show abnormal bone cells and advanced arthritis as well as help determine the cause of bone pain. Risks
Imaging of the Hip - Musculoskeletal Diseases 2021-2024 - NCBI Bookshelf
2021年4月13日 · Evaluation of the osseous morphology is the first cornerstone of hip imaging; this includes assessing diseases such as stress fractures or osteonecrosis, as well as detecting abnormal osseous morphology of the hip joint, such as seen in femoroacetabular impingement.
Imaging of Hip Pain: From Radiography to Cross-Sectional …
Hip pain can have multiple causes, including intra-articular, juxta-articular, and referred pain, mainly from spine or sacroiliac joints. In this review, we discuss the causes of intra-articular hip pain from childhood to adulthood and the role of the appropriate imaging techniques according to clinical suspicion and age of the patient.
Bone scans - RACGP
Bone scan showed abnormal, intense radiotracer uptake in the calvarium, jaw, multiple vertebral bodies, pelvis and an expanded and bowed right femur (Figure 7). These findings are typical of polyostotic Paget disease.
Bone Scan - RadiologyInfo.org
help determine the location of an abnormal bone in complex bone structures, such as the foot or spine. Follow-up evaluation may then be done with a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. diagnose broken bones, such as a stress fracture or a hip fracture, not clearly seen on x-rays.