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pamidronate /pam·i·dro·nate/ (pam″ĭ-dro´nāt) an inhibitor of bone resorption used to treat malignancy-associated hypercalcemia, osteitis deformans, and osteolytic metastasis secondary to breast cancer or myeloma; used as the disodium salt. Complexed with technetium 99m, it is used in bone imaging.

pamidronate

Aredia^® Metabolism A 2^nd-generation biphosphonate used to manage osteoporosis and Paget's disease of bone. See Biphosphonate, Osteoporosis.

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