Published 2015 | Version v1
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Bone single-photon emission computed tomography and three-dimensional computed tomography in the diagnosis of low costal variation and pathologies

Creators

  • 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kayseri Training and Research Hospital, Kayseri (Turkey)
  • 2. Department of Radiology, Kayseri Training and Research Hospital, Kayseri (Turkey)

Description

In general, there are five lumbar vertebras in normal human subjects. But occasionally there are six. In such a situation, a radiologist need to discern between lumbarization of S1 (S1 vertebra becomes segmented and mimics L5) or due to hypoplastic 12th ribs, hence the T12 vertebra is wrongly assumed to be L1. These interesting images serve a multimodality approach to right aplasia/left hypoplasia of 12th rib, injury of left 11th rib and subluxation of left 11th Costovertebral joint in a patient with lumbar back pain

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.152990; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379687

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379687;
DOI
10.4103/0972-3919.152990;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 183-184
ISSN
0972-3919

INIS

Country of Publication
India
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
46049862
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Descriptors DEI
DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; IMAGES; INJURIES; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATIENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; VARIATIONS; VERTEBRAE
Descriptors DEC
BODY; DISEASES; ORGANS; POPULATIONS; SKELETON; SYMPTOMS

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Notes
PMCID: PMC4379687; PMID: 25829746; PUBLISHER-ID: IJNM-30-183; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4379687; Copyright: (c) Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.