title: The bone scan in clinical practice.
abstract: Radioisotopic bone scanning using technetium-99m labelled phosphate and diphosphonate compounds is a relatively new method of imaging the skeleton which has rapidly assumed major clinical importance. In this review of pathophysiology of bone uptake of radiopharmaceutical, the relative sensitivity of bone scan and radiograph, and the more important uses of bone scanning in clinical practice are described.
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001851:Bone Diseases, Metabolic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010018:Osteomalacia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging