Review of strontium 87m scintigraphy in the detection of skeletal metastases from mammary cancer.
Strontium 87m bone scanning was used in the assessment of 162 patients with breast cancer. Seventy-two patients had abnormal bone scans and in 63 (87 percent) these findings were subsequently confirmed. More metastases were detected by scanning and radiology than by radiology alone. There was a false positive rate of 7 percent. Of the 90 negative scans 23 showed evidence of metastasis either radiologically or at autopsy. This represented a false negative rate of 26 percent. The reasons for the false results are discussed particularly in relation to the problems of imaging the dorsal spine.
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes
D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes