Bone scintigraphy is really unnecessary for evaluation of bone metastasis?

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2676-2677

  Nakahara, Tadaki ^a   Suzuki, Takayuki ^a   Kitamura, Naoto ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 54049095220     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1057-z     Document Type: Letter

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