The medical cost associated with back pain in the United States is considerable and growing. Although the differential diagnosis of back pain is broad, epidemiological studies suggest a correlation between adult and adolescent complaints. Injury of the pars interarticularis is one of the most common identifiable causes of ongoing low back pain in adolescent athletes. It constitutes a spectrum o...

It is well established that Technetiummethylene diphosphonate (Tc MDP) whole body bone scintigraphy (WBBS) can demonstrate multiple lesions with increased radiotracer concentration in involved bone. But it is hard to differentiate multiple benign osteolytic lesions from disseminated bone metastases. Even combined with medical history and multiple imaging results, clinical diagnosis of metastati...

AIM The aim of our study is to assess the diagnostic value of Technituim-(99m)-Methyle diphosphonate ((99m)Tc-MDP) Bone scintigraphy in the assessment of children with back pain. METHODS Included in this retrospective study were 68 child referred to us complaining of back pain (mean age of 13+ 2). There were 45 boys and 23 girls. All children have been investigated with conventional x-ray whi...

BACKGROUND To estimate and compare the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) index in skeletal scintigraphy by four different methods of quantification employed in normal subjects of different age groups. MATERIAL AND METHODS The whole-body skeletal survey of 100 subjects, who underwent skeletal scintigraphy three hours after injection of 99mTc-Methylene Diphosphonate (MDP), were selected for this analysis....

To the Editor, We report a 52-year-old male patient with bone marrow and skeletal system involvement of sarcoidosis. In sarcoidosis, while bone involvement occurs at a rate of 10%-15%, iliac bone and bone marrow involvement is less common [1,2]. A 52-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with increased lower back pain with activity for the last 2 months. The patient occasionally coug...

A 52-year-old woman with overlap syndrome and interstitial pneumonia underwent immunosuppressive therapy and she was suspected to suffer from pulmonary aspergillosis. Oral voriconazole was initiated, and a rapid elevation of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) occurred after 4 weeks. After 2 months, the patient presented diffuse pain in bilateral skeletal regions, and bone scintigraphy revealed bilatera...

UNLABELLED Neurofibromatosis type 1 or von Recklinghausen's disease is one of the most common autosomal dominant genetic disorders. Between 29% and 77% of patients may suffer from a wide range of skeletal abnormalities and, thus, patients with neurofibromatosis frequently undergo skeletal scintigraphy, at which time the common peripheral nerve soft-tissue tumors that occur in this syndrome (neu...

objective(s): to review the findings of the patients with sjögren’s syndrome (ss) having technetium-99m-pertechnetate (99mtc-pertechnetate) and gallium-67 citrate (ga-67) salivary gland scintigraphy in the past eight years.methods: the patients with ss, who were referred to our department for salivary gland scintigraphy during january 2008-december 2015 were studied using both 99mtc-pertechneta...

we report a three-phase bone scintigraphy for the diagnosis of a peripheral bone lesion caused by systemic sarcoidosis. a 32-year-old man with suspected osteomyelitis of the right forefinger underwent three-phase bone scintigraphy with tc-99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (hmdp) and single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (spect/ct). the lesion was rich in blood flow acc...