UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to assess the value of 99mTc-hexakis2-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) scintigraphy in patients with clinical and radiologic features of primary or metastatic musculoskeletal tumors. METHODS The scintigraphic findings for 84 patients were compared with the surgical and histologic findings. Each patient underwent three-phase bone scanning with 99mTc-methyle...

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...

A nine-month old male child presented with low-grade fever, loose stools and facial puffiness. Clinically patient was otherwise normal except for a firm liver on palpation. The laboratory tests revealed hypoproteinemia (both albumin and globulin) and iron deficiency anemia. Differential diagnosis considered were: 1. Nephrotic syndrome, 2. Cystic fibrosis (in view of recurrent diarrhea and respi...

A 14-year-old child was diagnosed with primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of pelvis. Baseline 99mTc-methtylene diphosphonate (MDP) bone scintigraphy done to know the extent of the disease, although of suboptimal quality, revealed involvement of right hemipelvis (A, arrowhead) (Fig. 1). Also, there was a focus of increased radiotracer uptake in the occipital bone (B, arrow). Since the patien...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of technetium-99m-methylene diphosphonate ((99m)Tc-MDP) three phase bone scintigraphy in detecting infection in malunion or nonunion traumatic fractures after internal fixation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred and eighty four patients with malunion or nonunion fractures after internal fixation (130 men and 54 women; age range, 16-79 years) underw...

We undertook a retrospective study of 122 patients with ankle pain to determine the accuracy of bone scintigraphy using 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) for detection of osteochondral talar dome fractures (OCTDF). Plain radiographs, which were available in 97 patients, had not revealed any abnormality in the talar dome. Bone scintigraphy was followed by CT, which was considered to be the ref...