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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Belgium, Europe
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Location: Belgium, Europe
Posts: 832
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You're right Karen. In Belgium Dr. F. Someville (not involved with RSD anymore) wrote a paper about how to interpret the bone scan.
In the first stage it will be positive for RSD, it will normalize in later stages and in the final stage a bone scan can be perfectly normal. So it is basically useless as a diagnostic tool, but is often used as such, which endangers patients who happen to be in later stages, if the doctor isn't knowledgeable about RSD.
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All the best, Marleen
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Work related (car) accident September 21, 1995, consequences:
- chondromalacia patellae both knees
- RSD both legs (late diagnosis, almost 3 years into RSD) & spread to arms/hands as of 2008
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