In Reply to: On the contrary posted by drjulian on Sunday, 31. May 2009 at 15:22 Bali Time:
Many times a fissure caught by initial X-Ray would disappear on the second exam.
Theoretically and in a moderate stress fracture, a discontinuity of the bone caused by trauma would incite new bone constituent i.e calcium accumulating on the site which in turn it would be visible on X-Ray film. Unfortunately it's not always the case.Yes, the accumulation might always happen, but its mass amount is not always sufficient to be detected on Ro photo.Some experts try to perform radionuclide bone scanning to prove if there is a fissure or not on the borderline case. I believe BMIC would not do it, because it's useless for the overall treatment of these ladies.
So did a healed fracture after 3 moths, it would be invisible if there are no comminuted fracture, no angulation etc and the reformation during the healing process is complete and perfect. This could be the case in a mild fracure or a fissure.