Occult Degenerative Disease in the Athletic Cohort

Frater, Clayton; Breit, Robert; Van der Wall, Hans

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_148

Clayton Frater⁴,
Robert Breit⁵ &
Hans Van der Wall^6,7

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A 40-year-old amateur weight lifter and runner had a weight-lifting injury which led to neck and shoulder pain. Plain film of the cervical spine was unremarkable. Bone scintigraphy demonstrated intervertebral disk and left uncovertebral joint uptake at C5/C6 without evidence of fracture. Exacerbation of occult degenerative disease is a poorly recognized cause of sporting injury, particularly at a common site of symptoms such as the cervical or lower lumbar spine.

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Nuclear Medicine Research Foundation & University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Clayton Frater
CNI Molecular Imaging, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Robert Breit
CNI Molecular Imaging and University of Notre Dame, Sydney Campus, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hans Van der Wall
Concord Nuclear Imaging & University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia
Hans Van der Wall

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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
Tim Van den Wyngaert
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Gopinath Gnanasegaran
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
Klaus Strobel

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CNI Molecular Imaging and University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia
Hans Van der Wall

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Frater, C., Breit, R., Van der Wall, H. (2023). Occult Degenerative Disease in the Athletic Cohort. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_148

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_148
Published: 25 February 2024
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