LIMITED DIAGNOSTIC-VALUE OF MACRORADIOGRAPHY IN SUSPECTED SCAPHOID FRACTURES

Authors
GAEBLER C KUKLA C BREITENSEHER MJ MRKONJIC L KAINBERGER F VECSEI V
Citation
C. Gaebler et al., LIMITED DIAGNOSTIC-VALUE OF MACRORADIOGRAPHY IN SUSPECTED SCAPHOID FRACTURES, Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica, 69(4), 1998, pp. 401-403
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Orthopedics
Journal title
Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00016470
Volume
69
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
401 - 403
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-6470(1998)69:4<401:LDOMIS>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
In a prospective study 60, patients having suspected occult scaphoid f ractures, but with normal conventional scaphoid radiographs, also unde rwent macroradiography, Clinical and conventional radiographic follow- up examinations and MRI identified 8 occult scaphoid fractures and 23 nonscaphoid lesions, Macroradiography identified only 50% of the occul t scaphoid fractures.