Correlation of Radiologic Tests in the Diagnosis of Brucellosis with Osteoarticular Involvement Background. The most common complication of brucellosis is musculoskeletal system involvement. Bone and joint involvement in brucellosis may present as mainly sacroiliitis and spondylitis. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation of plain X-rays, bone scintigraphy, and contrast-enhanced ma...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal B-lymphocyte neoplasm of terminally differentiated plasma cells. Imaging modalities which allow the recognition of the effects of myeloma cells on the skeletal system have been utilized for a long time. Herein, we represent a patient with generalized osteoporosis and hypercalcemia, who was referred for parathyroid scan, in whom the widespread bone marrow techne...

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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 201Tl scintigraphy in comparison with three-phase bone scintigraphy in the differentiation of residual/recurrent tumors from post-therapeutic changes, in patients previously treated for bone and soft-tissue tumors. METHODS Thirty-five 201Tl and three-phase bone scintigraphy scans were obtained for 30 patients with a history...

a 10-year-old boy was referred to us for evaluation of fuo accompanied with bone pain in both calves. three hours after intravenous injection of 13 mci of 99mtc-mdp, whole body scan in multiple spot views was performed. the scan showed symmetrical areas of diffusely increased tracer uptake in multiple long bones. histopathologic evaluation confirmed osteosclrosis and fibrotic changes without an...

a 65 year-old overweight man with a history of prostate cancer was referred to our nuclear medicine department for bone scanning. anterior projection images showed two small foci of increased radiotracer uptake corresponding to the anterior arcs of the right and left sixth ribs, which were interpreted as suspicious for metastatic involvement. eight months later the patient was referred for foll...

Objective: In view of the characteristics of Whole-Body Diffusion-Weighted MRI (WB-DWI) and the difficulties in the diagnosis of bone metastases from lung cancer, our study aimed to explore the possible application of WB-DWI in diagnosis of bone metastases from lung cancer. Methods: 70 patients with lung cancer were selected in our hospital from August 2012 to June 2014. All the patients were s...

Proteus syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder characterized by an asymmetrical overgrowth of skin, bones, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels. We present a case of a six-year-old boy with proteus syndrome who underwent bone scintigraphy for suspected osteomyelitis. Bone scintigraphy ruled out osteomyelitis and suggested cellulitis. In addition, it demonstrated strik...

The usefulness of bone marrow scintigraphy with 99mTc-HMPAO-labeled leukocytes (leukocyte bone marrow scintigraphy) in the diagnosis of skeletal metastases of cancers was investigated in 70 lesions in 27 patients with various types of cancer. The final diagnosis of skeletal metastases was based on one or more criteria consisting of histological confirmation, typical findings of metastases by bo...