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Paediatric Bone Scintigraphy: Benign Bone Disease

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Bone scintigraphy is a commonly performed nuclear medicine technique in the assessment of non-malignant skeletal pathology in children. A description of the mechanisms and bone scintigraphic findings of benign bone disease is presented along with relevant correlative radiological and F18-FDG PET/CT imaging.

Topics covered include bone and joint infections (of both neonates and older children), benign focal bone lesions, the osteochondroses and complications of slipped capital femoral epiphyses. The various patterns of skeletal trauma are presented including various manifestations of non-accidental injury, toddlers’ fractures and sports-related injury.

Scintigraphic findings in chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis and sarcoidosis are also presented.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Kevin London BHB, Dip Sci, MB ChB, DCH, FRACP, MM

  2. Discipline of Imaging and Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Robert Howman-Giles MB BS, M.D., FRACP, DDU

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  1. School of Medicine, Dept. Nuclear Medicine, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas', Guy's Campus, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom

    Ignac Fogelman

  2. Deptartment of Nuclear Medicine, Guy's and St. Thomas Hospital, St. Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Dept. Nuclear Medicine &, Nuclear Cardiology, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord West, 2138, New South Wales, Australia

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London, K., Howman-Giles, R. (2012). Paediatric Bone Scintigraphy: Benign Bone Disease. In: Fogelman, I., Gnanasegaran, G., van der Wall, H. (eds) Radionuclide and Hybrid Bone Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02400-9_35

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