DECREASED UPTAKE OF A BONE SEEKING RADIOP HARMACEUTICAL AT THE FOOT AFTER PROLONGED ELIMINATION OF WEIGHT-BEARING - 2 CASE-REPORTS

Citation
D. Lechevalier et al., DECREASED UPTAKE OF A BONE SEEKING RADIOP HARMACEUTICAL AT THE FOOT AFTER PROLONGED ELIMINATION OF WEIGHT-BEARING - 2 CASE-REPORTS, La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris, 73(1-2), 1997, pp. 19-21
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00371777
Volume
73
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
19 - 21
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-1777(1997)73:1-2<19:DUOABS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Two patients were evaluated for decreased temperature and mild erythro cyanosis of the foot after prolonged elimination of weight-bearing on the same side because of a lesion at the tibia or knee. Both patients had been using forearm crutches to walk. A radionuclide bone scan show ed decreased uptake at the early vascular phase and decreased bone upt ake at the foot and tibial shaft with bone-soft tissue equalization on the non-weight-bearing side. All abnormalities resolved within two we eks of resumption of weight-bearing. The main differential diagnosis o f this condition is reflex sympathetic dystrophy.