title: [Clinical assessment of bone scanning in 78 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, 515041, China. stoy@21cn.com
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ouyang
authors.forename: Xiaoqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ouyang
authors.forename: Chuwen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Junxiong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate