title: Soft tissue uptake on 99mTc methylene diphosphonate bone scan imaging: pictorial review.
abstract: 99mTechnetium methylene diphosphonate (MDP) bone isotope may accumulate in many extra-osseous sites due to a variety of both benign and malignant conditions. This finding on a bone scan can be crucial to the diagnosis and may not be apparent in other imaging or the clinical evaluation of the patient. We present a pictorial review sampling some of the many causes of extra-osseous 99mTc MDP accumulation.
authors.affiliation: Medical Imaging Department, Women's & Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaye
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayward
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate / Q000493:pharmacokinetics
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate