Clinical Radiology
Volume 63, Issue 1 , Pages 59-70 , January 2008

Acute bone crises in sickle cell disease: the T1 fat-saturated sequence in differentiation of acute bone infarcts from acute osteomyelitis

  • R. Jain

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: R. Jain, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, P.O. Box 35, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat PC 123, Oman. Tel.: +968 9504 5427; fax: +968 2414 1733.
    • ,
  • S. Sawhney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
    • ,
  • S.G. Rizvi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Received 3 September 2006 ,Revised 8 June 2007 ,Accepted 20 July 2007.

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PII: S0009-9260(07)00332-7

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.07.017

Clinical Radiology
Volume 63, Issue 1 , Pages 59-70 , January 2008

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