DouglasCarnall Sep 18, 2013:

context lacking To translate this properly requires the proper context to be stated. It sounds like a hospital radiology report, but from which department? Plain x-ray? Nuclide bone scan? CT scan? MRI scan? Could even possibly be the notes from a clinical examination. We're guessing. Unnecessarily.

Sheri P Sep 18, 2013:

If it's not a typo This is a complete guess, but I wonder if this might be referring to a bone scan (although I do realize the usual way of saying "bone scan" in French is "scintigraphie osseuse"). The material that gets injected into a patient for a bone scan is called a "tracer" (Fr. "traceur"). Maybe the ST is referring to the actual "trace" that gets produced as the result of a bone scan?

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bone-scan/MY00306/DSECTION=...
A bone scan is a nuclear imaging procedure. In nuclear imaging, tiny amounts of radioactive materials **(tracers)** are injected into a vein and taken up in varying amounts at different sites in the body. Areas of the body where cells and tissues are repairing themselves most actively take up the largest amounts of **tracer**. Nuclear images highlight these areas, suggesting the presence of abnormalities characteristic of disease or injury.

http://www.athenshealth.org/nuclearmedicinebonescan
A Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan uses medicine given through an injection that **"traces" ** the bones for symptoms such as fracture or pain.

rachelha Sep 17, 2013:

If trame osseuse normale then normal bone matrix.

DLyons Sep 17, 2013:

Trame osseuse normale?