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Normal Anatomic Variant: Scintigraphy of the Ischiopubic Synchondrosis

Creighton University, Saint Joseph Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Kevin A. Cawley, MD, Dept. of Radiol. and Nucl. Med., Creighton University, St. Joseph Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska 68131.

ABSTRACT

Radionuclide bone imaging in pediatric patients occasionally shows a focus of distinct localized increase of radiotracer uptake at the ischiopubic synchondrosis. Correlation of radionuclide bone images and conventional radiographs of this area in a group of pediatric patients demonstrates the positive bone scans to correlate with the period of beginning but incomplete fusion of the synchondrosis. This represents a normal phase of skeletal development that radiographically and scintigraphically may mimic disease and should not be confused with a focus of pathologic activity.

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