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An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy

(99m)Technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy (BS) has an important role in evaluating skeletal pathology, especially its extent. Incidental extra-osseous uptake may sometimes be seen in soft-tissue pathologies. We present a 64-year-old female with skull base osteomyelitis referred for B...

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Autores principales: Chakraborty, Partha Sarathi, Karunanithi, Sellam, Dhull, Varun Singh, Kumar, Kunal, Gupta, Ravikant, Tripathi, Madhavi
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25589816
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.147555
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author Chakraborty, Partha Sarathi
Karunanithi, Sellam
Dhull, Varun Singh
Kumar, Kunal
Gupta, Ravikant
Tripathi, Madhavi
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description (99m)Technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy (BS) has an important role in evaluating skeletal pathology, especially its extent. Incidental extra-osseous uptake may sometimes be seen in soft-tissue pathologies. We present a 64-year-old female with skull base osteomyelitis referred for BS which revealed involvement of the skull base on the left side, uptake was also noted in bilateral lungs secondary to hypercalcemia of renal failure and in the D12-L1 vertebrae as the patient had a history of Pott's spine. This is perhaps a unique case showing three findings each of a different etiology in the same scan.
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spelling pubmed-42900762015-01-14 An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy Chakraborty, Partha Sarathi Karunanithi, Sellam Dhull, Varun Singh Kumar, Kunal Gupta, Ravikant Tripathi, Madhavi Indian J Nucl Med Interesting Images (99m)Technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy (BS) has an important role in evaluating skeletal pathology, especially its extent. Incidental extra-osseous uptake may sometimes be seen in soft-tissue pathologies. We present a 64-year-old female with skull base osteomyelitis referred for BS which revealed involvement of the skull base on the left side, uptake was also noted in bilateral lungs secondary to hypercalcemia of renal failure and in the D12-L1 vertebrae as the patient had a history of Pott's spine. This is perhaps a unique case showing three findings each of a different etiology in the same scan. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4290076/ /pubmed/25589816 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.147555 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chakraborty, Partha Sarathi
Karunanithi, Sellam
Dhull, Varun Singh
Kumar, Kunal
Gupta, Ravikant
Tripathi, Madhavi
An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
title An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
title_full An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
title_fullStr An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
title_full_unstemmed An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
title_short An uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
title_sort uncommon case showing three different pathologies on (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
topic Interesting Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25589816
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.147555
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