ADDED VALUE OF HYBRID IMAGING IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF OSTEOID OSTEOMA: CASE REPORTS

Sanae El Mselmi*, Fabrice Fokoué, Nadia Ismaili Alaoui

ABSTRACT

Osteoid osteoma is a painful, benign, osteoblastic lesion that occurs in younger patients and affects the extremities or the axial skeleton. Oseteoid osteoma has previously been diagnosed using plain radiograph imaging. However, diagnosis of osteoid osteoma may be delayed due to ambiguities on plain radiograph images; despite the increasing use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), this type of misdiagnosis is not uncommon. Through tow case reports, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of radionuclide imaging scans with SPECT/CT for the diagnosis of osteoid osteoma, as this form of imaging was proposed to be a more sensitive test.

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