Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 3

Pathological fracture with a difference: - Scintigraphic and radiological characterization in a case of Pagets disease

  • Author:
  • V.V. S. Prabhakar Rao, Pushpalatha Sudhakar, S. Rammurthy, Manishi L Narayan, V. Kumaraswamy
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 67 to 68

Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, 500082 India.

Abstract

The authors report a case of pathological fracture in an incidentally detected Paget's disease, where in the site of fracture was unusually located at the transition zone between the normal and abnormal bone. 99mTc Methylene Diphosphonate scan characteristically showed the abnormal uptake extending up to the fracture site but not involving it.

Keywords

Paget's disease, 99mTc Methylene Diphosphonate