Proteus syndrome: a case report with bone scintigraphy findings [PDF]
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2013 Proteus syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder characterized by an asymmetrical overgrowth of skin, bones, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels.
Bangkim Chandra Khangembam +7 more
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Higher Interrater Agreement of FDG-PET/CT than Bone Scintigraphy in Diagnosing Bone Recurrent Breast Cancer [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2020 The purpose was to investigate the interrater agreement of FDG-PET/CT and bone scintigraphy for diagnosing bone recurrence in breast cancer patients.
Jorun Holm +5 more
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Infliximab-induced hot kidneys on bone scintigraphy
World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2019 99mTechnetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy is widely used in various clinical settings to detect bone abnormalities. Many reasons may cause abnormal tracer uptake in soft tissues on bone scintigraphy.
Derya Cayir +3 more
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Routine Preoperative Bone Scintigraphy Has Limited Impact on the Management of Patients with Invasive Bladder Cancer. [PDF]
, 2021 BACKGROUND According to current guidelines, bone scintigraphy is not routinely indicated in patients with invasive bladder cancer prior to radical cystectomy unless specific symptoms are present.
Roth, Beat +13 more
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Rational and reliable diagnosis of periprosthetic hip and knee joint infection using two nuclear-medicine methods: 99mTc-ciprofloxacin and 99mTc-MDP scintigraphy [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2021 Background/Aim. There is a constant and dramatic in-crease in hip and knee prosthetic implantations worldwide. However, a decrease in the percentage of failed (infected) prosthetic implantations is not significant (0.5% up to 2%).
Pucar Dragan +2 more
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World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2021 “Hot” patella sign is a less commonly seen finding in bone scintigraphy defined as increased tracer activity in the patella greater than the ipsilateral distal femur and ipsilateral proximal tibia.
Vankadari Kousik, Sai Ram
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Magnetic resonance imaging and bone scintigraphy in bone metastasis detection: A comparative study [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2010 Background/Aim. Bone scintigraphy is well-known method for the detection of neoplastic lesions with a high sensitivity and, at the same time, a lower specificity.
Lučić Silvija +4 more
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Combined bone scintigraphy with 99mTc-MDP and 99mTc-ciprofloxacin in differentiation of hip and knee prosthesis aseptic loosening and infection: A preliminary study [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Background/Aim. Although the number of new primary implantation of hip and knee prostheses every year increases, the rate of failed arthroplasty is nearly the same.
Pucar Dragan +9 more
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Future Science OA, 2021 Aim: To assess the value of bone scintigraphy and 18F-fluorocholine PET/computed tomography (CT) in predicting outcome in patients with prostate cancer and bone metastases treated with 223radium. Materials & methods: Retrospective analysis of 48 patients
Michele Klain +12 more
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Computerized segmentation of whole-body bone scintigrams and its use in automated diagnostics [PDF]
, 2005 Bone scintigraphy or whole-body bone scan is one of the most common diagnostic procedures in nuclear medicine used in the last 25 years. Pathological conditions, technically poor image resolution and artifacts necessitate that algorithms use su±cient ...
Igor Kononenko +7 more
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