"Positive" bone scan--a contraindication to surgery?
Eleven patients with urologic cancer had an abnormal 99mTc (technetium-99m) bone scan as the sole evidence of metastatic disease. Potentially curative therapy should not be withheld on the basis of a "positive" bone scan if such an area is accessible to selected bone biopsy and proves to be negative for tumor histologically.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012272:Ribs / Q000473:pathology; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*