Bilateral generalised synovial chondromatosis of the knee: Bone scintigraphic demonstration with radiologic correlation.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Elri, Tarik; Cabuk, Mehmet; Salihoglu, Yavuz Sami; Erdemir, Rabiye Uslu; Serifoglu, Ismail
- Source
- Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Jul-Sep2016, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p242-243. 2p.
- Subject
- *SYNOVIAL chondromatosis
*CONNECTIVE tissues
*ARTICULAR ligaments
*KNEE
*STIFLE joint
*DIAGNOSTIC imaging
*RADIONUCLIDE imaging
- Language
- ISSN
- 0972-3919
A 67-year-old woman with a history of bilateral progressive knee pain and swelling was referred for 99mTc-methyl diphosphonate bone scintigraphy. Flow and blood pool images showed bilateral heterogeneous increased uptake and delayed phase revealed mass-looking lobulated heterogeneous increased activity in both of knees extending distal part of the femoral shaft, but no other pathologic uptake was found in rest of the body. A diagnosis of synovial chondromatosis was made when correlated with X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images. This is a rare presentation of generalized synovial chondromatosis involving both knees which demonstrated on bone scintigraphy with X-ray and CT correlation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]