Items tagged “bone scan”
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Contiguous bone activity
Contiguous bone activity is a bone scan phenomenon seen in tumors which incite a regional hyperemia. Increased activity on blood pool images is seen extending across joints and to adjacent bones. This should not be mistaken for direct tumor involvement.
An example of a tumor which may demonstr...
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Calcaneal stress fracture
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20 Oct 2010
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Skeletal metastases
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07 Nov 2010
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Active sacroiliitis
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10 May 2012
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Technetium 99m-methyl diphosphonate
Technetium 99m-methyl diphosphonate (99mTc MDP) is a radiotracer used in nuclear medicine especially for bone scintigraphy. Any disease process which results in extracellular fluid expansion will lead to accumulation of this tracer.
Radionuclide profile
photon energy: 140 keV
physical half-li...
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Osteoblastic metastases from prostate cancer
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26 Oct 2014
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H sign of sacral insufficiency fracture
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03 Mar 2016
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Superscan - prostate cancer skeletal metastases
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26 Jun 2017
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Tram-track sign (bone)
The tram-track sign is sometimes seen on delayed bone scan images. They can appear as symmetric linear increase in tracer accumulation along diaphyseal and metaphyseal surfaces of long bones. Corresponding to similar periosteal reaction seen on radiographs. Bone scan findings precede radiographi...
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Golden arches sign (knees)
The Golden arches sign is a nuclear medicine sign often seen on bone scan in patients with total knee prosthesis.
The femoral condylar prosthesis results in two central photopenic regions with two 'hot' arches formed around the periprosthetic region.
This finding is non-specific and may sugges...
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Metastatic prostate cancer - superscan
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30 Jan 2021
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Right femoral stress fracture
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27 Dec 2021
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Anterior superior iliac spine avulsion injury
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01 Sep 2022
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Distal radial fracture - occult
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01 Sep 2022
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Complex regional pain syndrome (bone scan)
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20 May 2023
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Scapular stress fracture
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02 Mar 2023
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Femoral neck stress fracture (bone scan)
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24 May 2023
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Paget's disease (bone scintigraphy)
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09 Jun 2023
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Navicular stress fracture (bone scan)
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06 Jul 2023
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Sinusitis (bone scan)
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28 Jul 2023
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