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[Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis--exclusion with Turbo-STIR sequence?]
R Wunsch1, K Darge, W Rohrschneider
1Radiologische Klinik, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 153, 69120 Heidelberg. Rainer_Wunsch@ukl.uni-heidelberg.de
Abstract:
The timely diagnosis and early initiation of antibiotic therapy determine the clinical course of an acute hematogenous osteomyelitis. Consequently, a fast and efficient MRI examination protocol is crucial. We retrospectively evaluated various MR sequences used in the examination of 8 children having osteomyelitis. The examinations were conducted using a 0.5 T MR machine. All patients had a high signal intensity of the lesion in the IR sequence with fat suppression (turbo-STIR). An acute osteomyelitis can be excluded in the absence of signal intensity increase in the turbo-STIR sequence without the necessity of having to perform additional sequences.