Characteristics of skeletal stress fractures in female military recruits of the Israel defense forces on bone scintigraphy.

Aim: Clinical surveys on stress fractures (SF) in female military recruits are scarce. The aim of this study was to characterize the scintigraphic findings and classify the distribution and pattern of SF in a group of female recruits of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Materials And Methods: The bone scans of 146 female recruits (age range, 19-20.