title: Limbus Vertebra on Bone Scintigraphy in a Pediatric Patient.
abstract: Limbus vertebra involving the anterosuperior corner of a vertebral body is usually seen in adult patients, and it generally does not cause symptoms. An 8-year-old girl experienced lower back pain. Bone SPECT images revealed significantly increased tracer activity in the region of the anterior L4 vertebral body, which was shown on MRI to be a limbus vertebra.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China; and †Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Summer L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: Sabah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Servaes
authors.forename: Hongming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhuang
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon