PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Issa Loutfi
AU  - B. David Collier
AU  - Ahmed M. Mohammed
TI  - Nonosseous Abnormalities on Bone Scans*
DP  - 2003 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 149--153
VI  - 31
IP  - 3
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/31/3/149.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/31/3/149.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2003 Sep 01; 31
AB  - Although bone scanning is a test primarily concerned with skeletal abnormalities, important nonosseous findings are occasionally present on the images. To gauge the significance of such nonosseous uptake and, in particular, to determine whether these findings contain useful diagnostic information, the technical and medical staff in nuclear medicine must recognize the various patterns of nonbony uptake and understand their causes. The objectives of this article are to demonstrate the appearances of nonosseous uptake on bone scans, to categorize the forms of soft-tissue uptake, to emphasize technical artifacts leading to soft-tissue uptake, and to highlight the clinical significance of pathologic soft-tissue uptake.