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Stress Fracture Bone Scan
Aka: Stress Fracture Bone Scan- Indication
- Stress Fracture suspected
- Advantages
- Low cost
- High Test Sensitivity
- Disadvantages
- More radiation exposure than XRay
- False postiives with Osteomyelitis, bone growths
- Epidemiology
- Sensitivity: 100%
- False Negative case reports exist
- Specificity: Poor
- Sensitivity: 100%
- Course
- Bone scan remains abnormal months after healing
- References