title: Scintigraphic detection of sequential symmetrical metatarsal stress fractures.
abstract: A patient with complaints of right foot pain and previous normal radiographs had an abnormal three-phase bone scan consistent with a second metatarsal stress fracture. Subsequent radiographs confirmed this diagnosis. Two months later, the patient developed pain in his left foot, and again initial radiographs were noncontributory. A later bone scan revealed a left second metatarsal stress fracture. The results in this case reemphasize the value of bone scintigraphy in patients with foot pain and no bone abnormalities on plain radiographs.
authors.affiliation: University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, USA.
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D015775:Fractures, Stress / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008684:Metatarsus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging