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Thigh Splints: Adductor-Insertion Avulsion Syndrome

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Thigh splints were described relatively recently and are an overuse injury of the adductor muscles which appear to be more common in shorter females. The case presents a young female who rapidly accelerated a weight-lifting program and developed bilateral proximal femoral pain which was suspected of being due to stress fractures. Plain film radiography was unremarkable. Bone scintigraphy however showed an unusual linear pattern of uptake in both femora which was diagnosed as thigh splints.

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  1. Concord Hospital & University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Warwick J. M. Bruce

  2. Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Siri Kannangara

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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  1. CNI Molecular Imaging and University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia

    Hans Van der Wall

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Bruce, W.J.M., Kannangara, S. (2023). Thigh Splints: Adductor-Insertion Avulsion Syndrome. 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_159

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