Open AccessIncremental value of single photon emission tomography/computed tomography in 3-phase bone scintigraphy of an accessory navicular bone
Author(s) -
Sandeep Jain,
Sellam Karunanithi,
Krishan Kant Agarwal,
Ganesh Kumar,
Shambo Guha Roy,
Madhavi Tripathi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.136600
Subject(s) - medicine , bone scintigraphy , tomography , radiology , supernumerary , single photon emission computed tomography , navicular bone , foot (prosody) , nuclear medicine , ossicles , radiography , anatomy , middle ear , linguistics , philosophy
Accessory navicular bone is one of the supernumerary ossicles in the foot. Radiography is non diagnostic in symptomatic cases. Accessory navicular has been reported as a cause of foot pain and is usually associated with flat foot. Increased radio tracer uptake on bone scan is found to be more sensitive. We report a case highlighting the significance of single photon emission tomography/computed tomography in methylene diphosphonate bone scan in the evaluation of symptomatic accessory navicular bone where three phase bone scan is equivocal.