AIM To compare the effectiveness of radiological skeletal survey and bone scintigraphy for the detection of bony injuries in cases of suspected child abuse. METHODS All cases with a discharge diagnosis of child abuse that presented to the Royal Children's Hospital between 1989 and 1998 were retrieved, and those children that had undergone both skeletal survey and bone scintigraphy (radioisoto...

BACKGROUND The high incidence of skeletal metastases in cancer patients warrants careful detection with imaging and follow-up. Efforts are needed to manage pain associated with skeletal metastases as part of overall patient management. METHODS This article reviews the current methods of diagnostic imaging in the evaluation of skeletal metastases and image-guided treatment of bone metastases f...

Bone scintigraphy is a sensitive and popular method for imaging a wide array of benign or malignant skeletal abnormalities. However, the uptake of tracers used for bone scintigraphy may be observed in various extraosseous sites, thereby limiting its specificity. It is difficult to correctly localize such sites of uptake on planar bone scintigraphy alone. The addition of hybrid single-photon emi...

UNLABELLED To understand age-related changes of whole-body and regional skeletal metabolism, it is important to investigate the mechanisms of age-related bone loss and to develop suitable treatments for it. Bone biopsies show metabolism of the particular site examined while biochemical markers for bone metabolism reflect total skeletal metabolism. Bone scintigraphy is a convenient and simple wa...

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...

Skeletal metastases are a most common event in prostate cancer patients with advanced cancer disease. Early detection of bone metastases is crucial to initiate successful therapy. Now a days imaging technique such as bone scintigraphy is a frequently used method for detection of bone metastases. Without radiological tools it is difficult to diagnose, treat or follow clinically, bone metastases ...

Skeletal metastases are found at post-mortems in 25% or more of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The incidence reported during life is half of this. Conventional bone scintigraphy is widely employed in the diagnosis and follow-up of many malignant conditions and is generally accepted as the most sensitive amongst the available techniques for the detection of skeletal metastases2. Howev...