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Due to concerns of concurrent injury or overlapping symptoms, X-rays of multiple lower extremity regions may be requested simultaneously. This article explores the diagnostic yield of imaging multiple lower limb regions following trauma.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A retrospective audit of lower limb imaging requests for patients older than 18\u2009years from 2 hospitals was conducted. Region requested, clinical history, and radiology findings for initial and secondary requests for adjacent body parts within 24\u2009hours were collected and analysed using \u03c72 analysis.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>There were a total of 1473 examinations with 646 patients. Initial X-rays were significantly more likely to diagnose new, suspicious, and other findings compared to secondary X-rays of adjacent regions (\u03c72(3) = 377.504, P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001). Overall, 12.4% (n\u2009=\u2009183\/1473) of X-rays detected abnormalities such as fractures, and 160 of these 183 abnormalities (87.4%) were detected on the initial X-ray with the remaining 23 abnormalities (12.6%) detected in secondary X-rays. Only 0.9% (n\u2009=\u20096\/646) of patients had a concurrent injury.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>X-ray imaging of multiple lower extremities adjacent to injured areas has low diagnostic yield. Thorough clinical assessment is needed to reduce low-value imaging in lower limb trauma.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Advances in knowledge<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Concurrent injury in lower limbs injuries is rare. When multiple X-ray requests are made of adjacent regions, 87.4% of all abnormalities were detected on initial imaging. The diagnostic yield of secondary X-rays is very low particularly when patients are asymptomatic.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bjr\/tqaf183","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,28]],"date-time":"2025-07-28T16:20:59Z","timestamp":1753719659000},"page":"1677-1682","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Diagnostic yield of multiple X-ray imaging requests of lower limb extremities"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"98","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4327-0724","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dania","family":"Abu Awwad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Discipline of Medical Imaging Sciences, The Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney , Camperdown, Sydney, NSW 2006,","place":["Australia"]},{"name":"Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney Local Health District , Sydney, NSW 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