Technetium 99m-methyl diphosphonate
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Technetium 99m-methyl diphosphonate (99mTc MDP) is a radioisotope used in nuclear medicine especially for bone scans. Any disease process which results in extracellular fluid expansion will lead to accumulation of this isotope.
Radionuclide profile
- photon energy: 140 keV
- physical half life: 6 hours
- critical organ: bladder
Uses
- osteomyelitis
- fractures, including stress and insufficiency fractures
- malignancy, e.g. osteoid osteoma, bone metastases, soft tissue sarcomas
- painful scoliosis
- post traumatic hematomas, myositis ossificans, heterotopic ossification
- tumoral calcinosis
- metastatic pulmonary calcification
- sickle cell disease
-<li><a title="Osteomyelitis" href="/articles/osteomyelitis">osteomyelitis</a></li>-<li>fractures, including <a title="Stress fracture" href="/articles/stress-fractures">stress</a> and <a title="Insufficiency fractures" href="/articles/insufficiency-fracture">insufficiency fractures</a>- +<li><a href="/articles/osteomyelitis">osteomyelitis</a></li>
- +<li>fractures, including <a href="/articles/stress-fractures">stress</a> and <a href="/articles/insufficiency-fracture">insufficiency fractures</a>
-<li>painful scoliosis</li>- +<li>painful <a title="Scoliosis" href="/articles/scoliosis">scoliosis</a>
- +</li>
-<li><a title="Tumoral calcinosis" href="/articles/tumoral-calcinosis">tumoral calcinosis</a></li>-<li><a title="Metastatic pulmonary calcification" href="/articles/metastatic-pulmonary-calcification">metastatic pulmonary calcification</a></li>-<li><a title="Sickle cell disease" href="/articles/sickle-cell-disease">sickle cell disease</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/tumoral-calcinosis">tumoral calcinosis</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/metastatic-pulmonary-calcification">metastatic pulmonary calcification</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/sickle-cell-disease">sickle cell disease</a></li>
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