bone metastases
Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98%
- False negatives:
- multiple myeloma
- thyroid Ca
- small, purely lytic lesions
- oat cell Ca
Specificity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . high
- False positives:
- Paget's disease
- arthritis
- fibrous dysplasia
- infection
- trauma, new or old
REF: MacNeil BJ. Value of bone scanning in neoplastic disease.
Semin Nucl Med 14:277, 1984.
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