title: Skeletal scintigraphy with technetium diphosphonate in multiple myeloma--a comparison with skeletal x-ray.
abstract: Twenty-one patients with multiple myeloma were examined in close time relation with skeletal X-ray survey and bone scanning using technetium diphosphonate. Results indicate that X-ray is superior to bone scan in detecting myelomatous bone lesions. Approximately twice as many lesions were detected by X-ray as by bone scan. An exception to this general finding is the lumbar spine and rib cage, in which the two methods are equally reliable. Thus, a negative bone scan does not exclude the possibility of a myelomatous bone lesion.
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004164:Diphosphonates; D012968:Etidronic Acid; D006801:Humans; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate
chemical_list: D004164:Diphosphonates; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; C019561:technetium Tc 99m etidronate; D013667:Technetium; D012968:Etidronic Acid; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate