Fever and right lower limb pain. 3 phase bone scan.
Teaching Case Visit Teaching Case
Case presentation:
- Male.
- 12 y.o.
- From 3 days ago: fever and right lower limb pain.
- Normal Xray. -US: liquid effusion in right knee.
Teaching points:
- Effusionin US + Increasedblood pool + normal boneuptake = arthritis -Focal uptakesuggestosteomyelitis.
- Usuallybonescanisnotdone in kneearthritis.
- Bonescanisimportantin case of hiparthritis.