Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 20 No. (1), 1988.
Professional paper
Comparison of scientigraphic and radiographic findings in detecting of the skeleton metastases
Nedeljko Topuzović
Radoslav Kukić
Dušan Mileusnić
Nenad Belaj
Katarina Kruhonja
Juraj Smoje
Dalibor Koprolčec
Aleksandar Rusić
Abstract
This retrospective study deals with the cases of 206 patients with a malignant disease whose skeletons were scintigraphically and radiographically examined for detecting the metastases. In 107 patients (52%) the scintigraphic findings were positive, while the radiographic findings were such in 60 cases (29u/o). In 48 patients (45%) metastases were found after scintigraphy of the skeleton, while the radiographic finding was negative. A false negative scintigraphic finding of the skeleton was present only in one case. The results of investigations confirm the scintigraphy of the skeleton to be a very sensitive method in the early detection of the metastases of the skeleton. In the case of positive scintigraphic findings additional radiography is necessary in order to be able to exclude the benign lesions of the skeleton.
Keywords
comparison; metastases; radiography; scintigraphy; skeleton
Hrčak ID:
197080
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1988.
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