Assessment of penile bone graft viability by bone scintigraphy: a case report.
A 20-year-old man, who had penile reconstruction surgery with an iliac bone graft a year ago due to malcircumcision at 6 years old underwent bone scintigraphy in order to detect bone graft viability. The accumulation of 99mTc-MDP in the penile region revealed the viability of the bone graft. This case report shows that bone scintigraphy can be used to assess the viability of a bone graft located inside the penis as well as bone grafts placed elsewhere in the extremities.
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. fani@mail.koc.net
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D000328:Adult; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000502:physiology; D002944:Circumcision, Male / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate