First, we do not have access to pretreatment prostate biopsy, baseline WB-MRI, and
bone scan results because the patient's initial diagnosis and treatment occurred before his referral to our hospital.
Preoperative
Bone scan was done in only 13 (31%) cases.
In order to carry out this activity, data was collected from the nuclear medicine diagnostic techniques i.e., heart scans (Rest and Stress MIBI),
bone scans, renal scans, liver scans, thyroid scans and Thallium heart scans.
Their solution was to get more women diagnosed with osteoporosis by having
bone scans. But scans were expensive and there were few testing centers.
"That's why he's having a
bone scan. It's his near hind quarters and he might just have torn a muscle.
Indeed, a
bone scan can even worsen or 'flare' in response to successful therapy [8].
Radiography, CT, MRI, and
bone scan should be used as necessary to arrive at the correct diagnosis after meticulous physical examination.
The
bone scan revealed the answer, a patch of Paget's disease of the pelvis.
A subsequent biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma, and a
bone scan showed metastatic bony disease, which hadn't shown up on a
bone scan done 6 months before.
If a stress fracture is in the differential diagnosis then a
bone scan is in order.
An anterior-posterior technetium
bone scan provides a window into the metabolic activity of living bone, according to Dr.
"A common scenario has been a 50-year-old woman who has her last period, goes for a
bone scan, and has a spinal T score of --2.2.