Atlas of Bone Scintigraphy in the Pathological Paediatric Skeleton

by Isky Gordon

1: Introduction.- 2: Infection.- 2.1 Typical Hot Lesion in Bone.- 2.1.1 Lower Limbs.- 2.1.2 Upper Limbs.- 2.2 Less Common Appearances.- 2.2.1 Normal Scan Going on to Abnormal.- 2.2.2 Single Bone with Increased and Decreased Uptake.- 2.2.3 Acute Osteomyelitis, Cold Lesions Only.- 2.2.4 Acute Multifocal Osteomyelitis.- 2.2.5 Chronic Infection, Not Tuberculosis.- 2.2.6 Tuberculosis.- 2.3 Unusual Sites, Excluding the Long Bones.- 2.3.1 Skull.- 2.3.2 Thorax.- 2.3.3 Spine.- 2.3.4 Pelvis.- 2.3.5 Feet.- 2.4 Non-skeletal Infection.- 2.5 Growth Arrest.- 3: Arthritis.- 3.1 Septic Arthritis.- 3.1.1 Typical Appearances.- 3.1.2 Multifocal Arthritis.- 3.1.3 Osteomyelitis as a Complication of Septic Arthritis.- 3.2 Aseptic Arthritis.- 3.2.1 Inflammatory Arthritis.- 3.2.2 Irritable Hip.- 4: Tumours.- 4.1 Benign Tumours.- 4.1.1 Osteoid Osteoma.- 4.1.2 Osteoblastoma.- 4.1.3 Benign Fibrous Cortical Defect.- 4.1.4 Bone Cysts.- 4.1.4.1 Simple Bone Cysts.- 4.1.4.2 Fractures in a Simple Bone Cyst.- 4.1.4.3 Aneurysmal Bone Cysts.- 4.2 Malignant Tumours.- 4.2.1 Skeletal Sarcoma.- 4.2.1.1 Ewing's Sarcoma.- 4.2.1.2 Osteogenic Sarcoma.- 4.2.1.3 Chondrosarcoma.- 4.2.2 Neuroectodermal Tumours.- 4.2.2.1 Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumours.- 4.2.2.2 Neuroblastoma.- 4.2.2.3 Phaeochromocytoma.- 4.2.1 Reticular Endothelial System Malignancy.- 4.2.3.1 Hodgkin's Lymphoma.- 4.2.3.2 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.- 4.2.3.3 Leukaemia.- 4.2.3.4 Myelofibrosis.- 4.2.2 Other Tumours.- 4.2.4.1 Rhabdomyosarcoma.- 4.2.4.2 Germ Cell Tumour.- 4.2.4.3 Synovioma.- 4.2.4.4 Soft Tissue Sarcoma.- 4.3 Tumour Secondaries.- 4.3.1 Effect of Treatment.- 4.3.2 Metastases.- 4.4 Langerhans' Histiocytosis.- 5: Trauma.- 5.1 Appearances at Common Sites.- 5.1.1 Skull and Face.- 5.1.2 Thorax and Shoulder.- 5.1.3 Upper Limbs.- 5.1.4 Spine.- 5.1.5 Femur.- 5.1.6 Fibula.- 5.1.7 Feet.- 5.2 Unusual Appearances or Locations of Fractures.- 5.2.1 Stress Fracture.- 5.2.2 Slipped Femoral Capital Epiphysis.- 5.2.3 Spondylolisthesis.- 5.2.4 Trauma Secondary to Cold Exposure.- 5.3 Diffuse Skeletal Involvement.- 5.3.1 Polytrauma.- 5.3.2 Battered Child.- 5.4 Complication of Trauma.- 5.4.1 Pseudarthrosis.- 5.4.2 Infection with Trauma.- 5.4.3 Soft Tissue Damage.- 5.4.4 Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy - Sudeck's Atrophy.- 5.4.5 Necrosis of Bone.- 5.4.6 Growth Arrest.- 5.5 Bone Response to Underlying Pathology.- 5.5.1 Pathological Fracture.- 5.5.2 Response to Pressure.- 5.6 Post-operative Appearances.- 5.7 Effect of Radiotherapy.- 6: Osteochondritis Dissecans - Avascular Necrosis.- 6.1 Legg-Perthes' Disease.- 6.2 Other Sites of Osteochondritis Dissecans.- 6.3 Sickle Cell Disease.- 7: Miscellaneous.- 7.1 Dysplasia.- 7.1.1 Fibrous Dysplasia.- 7.1.2 Hemihypertrophy.- 7.1.3 Osteogenesis Imperfecta.- 7.1.4 Neurofibromatosis.- 7.1.5 Craniodiaphyseal Dysplasia.- 7.1.6 Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia.- 7.1.7 Osteopetrosis.- 7.1.8 Camurati-Engelmann Disease.- 7.1.9 Mucolipoidosis.- 7.2 Chondromata.- 7.2.1 Enchondromata.- 7.2.2 Exostoses.- 7.3 Blount's Disease.- 7.4 Gaucher's Disease.- 7.5 Scoliosis.- 7.6 The Sick Child.- 7.7 Disuse Arthropathy.- 7.8 Muscular Disorders.- 7.9 Growth Arrest.- 8: Unusual Appearances of the Bone-Seeking Tracer.- 8.1 Kidney and Collecting System.- 8.1.1 Kidney Obstruction.- 8.1.2 Retention of Tracer.- 8.1.2.1 Malignancy and / or Effect of Drugs.- 8.1.2.2 Sickle Cell Disease.- 8.1.2.3 Septicaemia.- 8.1.2.4 Post-trauma Retention.- 8.1.2.5 The Sick Child.- 8.1.2.6Isotope in Ureter.- 8.1.3 Positional Abnormality.- 8.1.4 Bladder.- 8.2 Lung Uptake.- 8.3 Splenic Uptake.- 8.4 Brain Uptake.- 8.5 Soft Tissue Calcification.- 8.6 Isotope Artefact.- 8.6.1 Injection Artefact.- 8.6.2 Urine Contamination.- 8.6.3 Foreign Body Artefact.- 8.6.4 Free Pertechnetate.- 8.6.5 Positional Abnormalities.

343 pages, Hardcover

First published May 13, 1996