Open AccessCar Accident With Airbag Deployment Trauma Showed Special Pattern in Bone Scan
Author(s) -
TzyyLing Chuang,
Ta-Wen Hsu,
Shih-Chin Chou,
Yuh-Feng Wang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1536-0229
pISSN - 0363-9762
DOI - 10.1097/rlu.0000000000002537
Subject(s) - medicine , sternum , rib cage , road traffic accident , traffic accident , radiology , computed tomography , surgery , anatomy , road traffic , forensic engineering , transport engineering , engineering
A 72-year-old man had rectal adenocarcinoma with partial obstruction with liver and lung metastases. Bone scan showed special pattern with bony destructions to the lateral aspect of the left first to fourth and right first to 10th ribs (in a row in continuous vertical alignment), the costal end of the left second rib, the left sternoclavicular junction, and sternum. Patient recalled a car traffic accident with airbag deployment trauma to the anterior aspect of the chest about 2 months prior. Chest CT confirmed that the bone lesions were all fractures.