RATIONALE Camurati-Engelmann disease (i.e., progressive diaphyseal dysplasia) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant bone disorder. The most common clinical manifestations were chronic skeletal pain, waddling gait, muscular weakness. PATIENT CONCERNS We described that a 27-year-old male with a 1-year history of intermittent tetany was referred for bone scintigraphy. The whole body bone scan ...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of a patient with many of the common manifestations of Gorlin's syndrome, a rare inherited condition. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 26-year-old female with longstanding left hip pain was referred for bone scintigraphy to find the cause of pain. The findings on bone scintigraphy as well as prior radiographic studies illustrated many of the defining feature...

introduction: almost all malignant tumors have the potential to eventually produce bone metastasis. the aim of the current study was to report the distribution pattern and imaging characteristics of bone metastases detected by conventional whole body bone scintigraphy in patients with different types of malignancies and to assess their relationship with the complaint of bone pain. methods: as ...

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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the skeletal effects of nonsurgical rapid maxillary expansion (RME) on craniofacial structures with bone scintigraphy in young adult female subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS The material of the present study consists of scintigraphic records taken from 17 early adult females treated with RME. All patients had a bilateral posterior crossbite, transverse maxillary deficiency...

UNLABELLED Conventional work-up (CWU) with chest radiography, abdominal ultrasonography, and skeletal scintigraphy has limited value in M staging of nonkeratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Our aim was to evaluate whether (18)F-FDG PET could replace CWU by comparing their diagnostic efficacies. METHODS Patients with histologically proven nonkeratinizing NPC and no prior treatment were ...

Mastocytosis is a rare, heterogeneous disease of complex etiology, characterized by a marked increase in mast cell density in the skin, bone marrow, liver, spleen, gastrointestinal mucosa and lymph nodes. The most frequent site of organ involvement is the skin. Cutaneous lesions include urticaria pigmentosa, mastocytoma, diffuse and erythematous cutaneous mastocytosis, and telangiectasia macula...

Although (18)F-labeled NaF was the first widely used agent for skeletal scintigraphy, it quickly fell into disuse after the introduction of (99m)Tc-labeled bone-imaging agents. Recent comparative studies have demonstrated that (18)F-fluoride PET is more accurate than (99m)Tc-diphosphonate SPECT for identifying both malignant and benign lesions of the skeleton. Combining (18)F-fluoride PET with ...