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Stress Fracture MRI
Aka: Stress Fracture MRI
- Indication
- Suspected Stress Fracture despite negative serial XRay
- New gold standard for Stress Fracture imaging (supplanting bone scan)
- Epidemiology: Efficacy
- Test Sensitivity: High (at least as good as bone scan)
- Test Specificity: High (better than bone scan)
- Advantages
- Highest efficacy of any imaging modality
- Best detail for differentiating Stress Fractures from other causes
- No radiation exposure
- Disadvantages
- Higher cost than other Stress Fracture imaging
- References
- Ishibashi (2002) Clin J Sports Med 12(2): 79-84