I think this statement is wrong.
On one of these threads they had a link to the Cat-Scan report and I remember several fractures mentioned in various bones.
I am almost sure they weren't all in the neck.
Does anyone have that link to the Cat-Scan?
Not offhand, but I remember Patricia Anderson (Terri's lawyer) being aghast when she saw the bone scans. She sent them at once to three doctors, and all three of them told her that the victim (Terri) had been beaten. She then took the findings to Judge Greer and asked for time to do discovery. He denied her motion, saying that the scans were all very interesting but had nothing to do with Terri's condition at this time.
That's from memory. Pat Anderson gave the interview Saturday on the Barbara Simpson show (dear old KSFO).
Nurses? Doctors? Have a look and explain this in laymen's terms, please?
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831223741016 03/05
Schiavo, Theresa
Carnahan, James 27 Y O
OP diag
Nuclear Imaging
3-5- 91
BONE SCAN:
Indication: Evaluate for trauma
Procedure and findings. Multiple gamma camera images of the axial and proximal appendicular skeleton in the anterior and posterior projections were obtained, following 21.1 millicuries of Technetium 99m HDP.
There are an extensive number of focal abnormal areas of nuclide accumulation of intense type. These include multiple bilateral ribs, the costovertebral aspects of several of the thoracic vertebral bodies, the L1 vertebral body, both sacroiliac joints, the distal right femoral diaphysis, both knees, and both ankles, right greater than the left. Correlative radiographs are obtained of the lumbar spine and of the right femur which reveal compression fracture, minor, superior end plate of L1 and shaggy irregular periosteal ossification along the distal femoral diaphysis and metaphysis primarily ventrally.
The patient has a history of trauma, most likely the femoral periosteal reaction reflects a response to a subperiosteal hemorrhage and the activity in L1 correlates perfectly with the compression fracture which is presumably traumatic. The presumption is that the other multiple areas of abnormal activity also relate to previous trauma. Additional possibility would be neoplastic bone disease, widespread disseminated infectious bone disease or multiple bone infarcts from abnormal hemoglobin.
CONCLUSION
Multiple areas of abnormal scintigraphic accumulation some of which are radiograph for differential as discussed above.