title: Unusual scintigraphic appearance of osteomyelitis secondary to atypical mycobacterium.
abstract: A Tc-99m-methylene diphosphonate study in a 41-year-old man demonstrated multiple regions of intense activity in the appendicular and axial skeleton, characteristic of metastatic disease. However, bone biopsy demonstrated atypical mycobacterium osteomyelitis; there was no evidence of neoplasm.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000150:complications*; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000150:complications*; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium
chemical_list: D013667:Technetium