title: Thermographic, radionuclide, and radiographic detection of bone metastases.
abstract: The sensitivity of thermography to osseous metastases is compared to 99mTc bone scanning using the specificity of radiographic skeletal survey as proof of metastases. Thirty-five patients with suspected disease were selected for study. Bone scans detected 94.4% while thermograms detected 22.2%. Thermography proved quite insensitive to osseous metastases. Radionuclide bone scanning is the method of choice for the present.
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013817:Thermography