[Clinical assessment of bone scanning in 78 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy].
OBJECTIVE
It is an evaluation of radionuclide bone scanning in detecting bone metastasis in the patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy.


METHODS
The bone scanning was performed in 78 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy.


RESULTS
Bone metastasis were detected in 47 patients out of 78, including 46 squamous cell carcinoma and 1 undifferentiated carcinoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Radionuclide bone imaging is useful for diagnosing, treating and prognosing of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Ouyang
Liang
L
Department of Nuclear Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, 515041, China. stoy@21cn.com
Ouyang
Xiaoqing
X
Guan
Chuwen
C
Li
Junxiong
J
Lin
Chen
C
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D011859:Radiography; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate