TY - JOUR T1 - Ultrasonography in Early Diagnosis of Metatarsal Bone Stress Fractures. Sensitivity and Specificity JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 1543 LP - 1543 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.091436 VL - 37 IS - 7 AU - AARON PARKIN LEININGER AU - KARL BERTRAND FIELDS Y1 - 2010/07/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/37/7/1543.2.abstract N2 - To the Editor:The recent article by Banal, et al1 demonstrated intriguing evidence about the potential for diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasonography in laboratory investigations of metatarsal stress fractures. It was noted that there were no false-positives for stress fracture when “cortical thickening” was observed on ultrasound. It … ER -