Abstract
A 39-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with frostbite to the fingers of both hands. In the ED, he received warm baths, acetylsalicylic acid, clopidogrel, and heparin. A three-phase bone scintigraphy with technetium-99m-methylene diphosphonate revealed absent radiotracer uptake in distal phalanges of both hands. The patient received acetylsalicylic acid, clopidogrel and wound care for the next 5 days and made an excellent recovery with satisfactory wound healing in both hands. Early rapid rewarming and reperfusion can improve the prognosis significantly and therefore bone scan done within first 1-2 days may give spurious results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 367-368 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2017 |
Keywords
- Bone scan
- cold thermal injury
- frostbite
- hand
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging