Bone scintigraphy
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bone-scintigraphy-212-1868202
title:
Bone scintigraphy
text:
A bone scan or bone scintigraphy is a nuclear medicine imaging technique of the bone. It can help diagnose a number of bone conditions, including cancer of the bone or metastasis, location of bone inflammation and fractures, and bone infection (osteomyelitis). Nuclear medicine provides functional imaging and allows visualisation of bone metabolism or bone remodeling, which most other imaging techniques cannot. Bone scintigraphy competes with positron emission tomography (PET) for imaging of abno
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Nuclear medicine imaging technique
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_scintigraphy
date created:
2005-09-13T11:05:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T05:51:07Z
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