The clover and heart signs in vertebral scintigraphic images are highly specific of Paget's disease of bone

Bone

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 605-608

  Rotes Sala D ^a   Monfort, J ^a,c   Solano, A ^a   Miralles, E ^a   Vila, J ^b   Carbonell, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Paget's disease of bone; Scintigraphy; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAGET BONE DISEASE; RADIOLOGIST; RHEUMATOLOGY; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; VERTEBRA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEITIS DEFORMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE;

EID: 1642390378     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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