[Scintigraphic diagnosis of sport injuries: multiple fractures of ribs by golf-players (author's transl)].

Three untrained golf-players suffered from pain in the dorsal region of the left thorax after some training hours. Three to four weeks after the pains had begun serial fractures of ribs were diagnosed by 99mTc-MDP bone-scan-examinations. All fractures were localized near the costal angulus (paravertebral) of these ribs. The fractures are causal by manual tensions. The difficulties in timing the bone-scan and in identifying the morphologic substrate are demonstrated. It is recommended, that golf-players suffering from thoracic pain ought to be examined by bone scan.