title: Three-phase bone scintigraphy in Pellegrini-Stieda disease.
abstract: In a patient with Pellegrini-Stieda disease, radiographs of the knees were unremarkable at the time the three-phase bone scintigraphy was abnormal. The results of follow-up radiographs three months later remained normal in the left knee, where local steroid injection was given, but revealed typical positive results in the right knee with no treatment. The three-phase bone scintigraphic pattern is rather typical and antedates the radiographic changes. Thus, the radionuclide technique would provide a useful procedure for the early diagnosis and treatment of Pellegrini-Stieda disease.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009221:Myositis Ossificans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D013977:Tibia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
chemical_list: D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate