Tibial periosteal reactions in soldiers. A scintigraphic study of 29 cases of lower leg pain.

Twenty-two soldiers with tibial pain along the posteromedial tibial border (29 painful tibias) entered the study. The tibias were evaluated using radiographs and scintigraphs. Follow-up scintigraphs of 12 tibias were performed.

Interobserver variation of angioscintigraphy for deep vein thrombosis.

Angioscintigrams of the deep veins in the legs were obtained in a consecutive series of 119 patients, suspected of deep vein thrombosis. Two nuclear medicine specialists independently read the angioscintigrams for presence of focal-filling defects, increased tissue activity, or collaterals and gave a final diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis. The overall agreement for the four findings were 0.

The predictive value of bone scintigraphy after internal fixation of femoral neck fractures.

Persisting pain of the hip following internal fixation of fracture of the neck of the femur is often caused by capital necrosis or non-union. In a randomized trial 35 patients had 99mTc-MDP bone scintigraphy performed 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 12 months after internal fixation of their subcapital fractures with a sliding screw-plate or a sliding nail-plate. The purpose was to find out whether bone scintigraphy could predict capital necrosis or non-union before it shows up on plain radiographs, which happens later.