Nuclear Medicine
A patient with suspected stress fracture undergoes a three-phase bone scan. The registrar asks about bone scintigraphy interpretation and its role in orthopaedic diagnosis. Regarding bone scintigraphy in orthopaedic practice:
Mark each as TRUE or FALSE
Tc-99m MDP (methylene diphosphonate) bone scan detects areas of increased osteoblastic activity; the...
Three-phase bone scan includes: flow phase (immediate - arterial perfusion), blood pool phase (5 min...
Bone scan is highly specific for distinguishing infection from tumour; a normal bone scan excludes o...
The superscan pattern shows diffuse intense skeletal uptake with absent or faint kidney and bladder ...
Clinical applications include: staging bone metastases (breast, prostate, lung), detecting stress fr...
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