DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Total body bone scintigraphy
Bone scintigraphy
A bone scan or bone scintigraphy is a nuclear scanning test to find certain abnormalities in bone which are triggering the bone's attempts to heal. It is primarily used to help diagnose a number of conditions relating to bones, including: cancer of the bone or cancers that have spread (metastasized) to the bone, locating some sources of bone inflammation (e.g. bone pain such as lower back pain due to a fracture), the diagnosis of fractures that may not be visible in traditional X-ray images, and the detection of damage to bones due to certain infections and other problems...
Total body bone scintigraphy - List of case studies
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_3
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III left ribs. On 4/2008 a whole body bone scintigraphy revealed a single area of increased uptake in the left ... - Total body multi-layer volumetric CAT scan à o ...
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasia
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For a complete diagnosis, the following was performed: a total body bone scintigraphy, with negative results, and tests on the concentration ...
- Chronic pain of undetermined origin
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diagnostic testing by means of scintigraphy. Total body bone scintigraphy : “no increase in osteoblastic turnover of ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma – additional opinion
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involves in depth the great wing of the sphenoid, the body of the sphenoid; pathological signal intensity also involves the left ... 5.5 x 5 cm in rear peritoneal area). - May, 2009: Total body CT scan with evidence of: “In median rear peritoneal area at ...
- Pulmonary Heteroplasia – additional opinion
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the II right and III left ribs. On 4/2008 a whole body bone scintigraphy revealed a single area of increased uptake in the left ... Urinary Indoleacetic acid = 9.6 (0.7 – 8.2). - Total body multi-layer volumetric CAT scan - o Cranial : normal. o ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma
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involves in depth the great wing of the sphenoid, the body of the sphenoid; pathological signal intensity also involves the left ... 5.5 x 5 cm in rear peritoneal area). - May, 2009: Total body CT scan with evidence of: “In median rear peritoneal area at ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_2
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ribs. On 4/2008 a whole body bone scintigraphy revealed a single area of increased uptake in the ... - Total body multi-layer volumetric CAT scan à o ...
- Chronic Pain in the Lower Rib Cage – Suspected Intercostal Neurinoma
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of the aortic arch . No evident current structural bone lesion foci or trauma of costal skeletal segments in left hemithorax under ... diagnostic deepening by means of a scintigraphy. Total body bone scintigraphy : “no increase in the osteoblast turnover ...
- spreading pancreatic cancer
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was carried out with removal of tail and part of body of pancreas and total splenectomy . The histology test showed the following: No neoplasia ...