Honda sign and variants in patients suspected of having a sacral insufficiency fracture

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 165-169

  Fujii, Manabu ^a   Abe, Katsumi ^a   Hayashi, Katsumi ^a   Kosuda, Shigeru ^a   Yano, Fuzuki ^a   Watanabe, Sadahiro ^a   Katagiri, Shinako ^b   Ka, Wei Jey ^b   Tominaga, Shinichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Saitama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone scintigraphy; Insufficiency fracture; Sacrum

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DISEASE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HONDA SIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SACRUM; SACRUM INSUFFICIENCY FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE;

EID: 13944272190     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200503000-00004     Document Type: Review

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