PubMed · 3182707
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J K Sharma, S N Dhawan, V Singh, V W Bhandari. 1988. Alkaptonuria--a rare presentation.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3182707/
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A patient with alkaptonuria and ochronotic arthrosis was imaged twice with technetium-99m dicarboxypropane diphosphonate (99mTc-DPD)--once during a bout of arthritic knee pain and once when symptom-free. There was a marked accumulation of radioactivity in the large joints. During the episode of arthritis the knee joints had a higher uptake than when the patient was without symptoms. The intervertebral discs showed a high uptake which extended laterally from the axial vertebral column; the finding gave an impression of whiskers, and this "whisker sign" may be characteristic of ochronosis.