Liver Uptake on Bone Scanning: A Diagnostic Algorithm | Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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Hepatic uptake on an MDP bone scan is a non-specific finding. When present, the etiology
needs to be determined. The differential diagnosis depends on the pattern of uptake …

DISCUSSION The most common causes of uptake in the spleen on the bone scan are
hemosiderosis, hemochromatosis, and sickle cell disease. Some of the uncommon causes …

We present the bone scintigrams of two patients, which demonstrate diffuse extraosseous
uptake of a bone agent in metastatic masses in the liver, one from a primary lung tumor and …

A man with poorly differentiated small-cell carcinoma of the lung presented with extensive
metastases to the liver. A prechemotherapy bone scan (performed with 740 MBq Tc-99m …

The radionuclide bone scan is a sensitive modality for the detection of skeletal metastases.
On occasion, there is incidental detection of soft-tissue lesions, both benign and malignant …

The accumulation of bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals has been reported in liver
metastases from colon carcinoma [1, 2] and oat cell carcinoma of the lung[3]. We describe …

A 70-year-old man with possible pulmonary tuberculosis had taken antituberculosis therapy
for 2 months. Dyspnea and abdominal fullness developed and he was found to have acute …

Diffuse hepatic uptake of bone-imaging agent can be due to a variety of causes including
radiopharmaceutical fault of elevation of serum albumin level and hypoxemia secondary to …

A 57-year-old man noticed two bumps on the right fronto-parietal region of his head. Head
CT showed an osteolytic lesion with soft tissue density in the right parietal bone. Tc-99m …