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CASE REPORT article
Front. Nucl. Med.
Sec. PET and SPECT
Volume 5 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnume.2025.1527159
Case Report: The Role of Bone Scan in Detecting Ribbing Disease
Provisionally accepted- Service de médecine nucléaire du CHU d'Angers, Angers, France
In this case, we report the usefulness of bone scintigraphy in evaluating osteoarticular pain when the diagnosis is unclear after standard morphological imaging. A 24-year-old male patient exhibited mild left tibial pain that had been intensifying over a period of 2 years. Initial radiological evaluation suggested a diagnosis of children's tibial bone marrow osteosclerosis associated with periostitis, based on standard radiographs and MRI. However, a complementary bone scan was required for confirmation and demonstrated moderate hyperemia and severe hyperfixation of the tibial lesion along with similar lesions on the left femur, both humeri and the right ulna. These new findings led to a diagnosis of Ribbing disease, a rare sclerosing bone dysplasia.
Keywords: Ribbing disease, osteocondensation, bone scan, Osteoarticular, Dysplasia, Scintigraphy
Received: 12 Nov 2024; Accepted: 11 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Dambrain, Bouron and Lacoeuille. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Abel Dambrain, Service de médecine nucléaire du CHU d'Angers, Angers, France
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