title: Super bone scan in metastatic stomach cancer.
abstract: Within the imaging literature, the super bone scan has emerged as a distinct type of bone scan with a specific differential diagnosis. Previous reviews have included prostate, breast, bladder and colon cancer, and lymphoma among the causes of a super bone scan but have not included stomach cancer. We report a super bone scan caused by late recurrence of stomach cancer in the bone marrow. Because the management of stomach cancer is significantly different than the management of other causes of a super bone scan, the distinction is clinically relevant. We conclude that stomach cancer should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a super bone scan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saphner
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Love
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perlman
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate