bone scintigraphy

Bone scintigraphy can also be used to follow tumor response to therapy.

Sometimes the bone scintigraphy can show increased tracer accumulation in the soft tissues.

The diagnosis of bone metastases is usually performed through bone scintigraphy.

Bone scintigraphy is also an effective method for diagnosis fracture which do not appear on Xray.

In the early stages, bone scintigraphy and MRI are the diagnostic modalities of choice.

A disruption of bone turnover by a pathologic process on the order of 5 to 15% from normal can be detected by bone scintigraphy.

Specificity of bone scintigraphy can be increased by performing an indium 111-labeled white blood cell test combined with a Technetium-99m-MDP injection.

The presence or absence of bone metastasis in patients was determined by bone scintigraphy, and was confirmed by conventional radiography (X-ray) as necessary.

Bone scintigraphy (bone scan) demonstrates abnormal radiotracer accumulation at the affected site, substantiating clinical suspicion, but this finding is not specific for osteoblastoma.

Contemporary methods of detection, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy and flow cytometry, all have limited sensitivity and specificity [ 5 6 ] .

Relative to conventional bone scintigraphy carried out with gamma cameras or SPECT systems, PET offers more sensitivity and spatial resolution.

SPECT can be used to complement any gamma imaging study, where a true 3D representation can be helpful, e.g., tumor imaging, infection (leukocyte) imaging, thyroid imaging or bone scintigraphy.

Foot whipping (Turkish: falaka) was the method most frequently applied, until Prof. Dr. Veli Lök discovered a method of bone scintigraphy that enabled him to detect effects of it a long time after torture.