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The "Tourniquet Effect"

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Correspondence: For reprints contact: A. Desai, MD, Div. of Nucl. Med., Dept. of Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 11th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

ABSTRACT

There is increasing popularity of three-phase bone scintigrams in the evaluation of soft tissues and bony disorders. However, if the areas in question happen to be hands, wrists, and forearms, the usual method of injection of a radiotracer may introduce a significant abnormality during the first two phases of a three-phase study.

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