Nuclear medicine approaches to musculoskeletal disease. Current status

Radiol Clin North Am. 1994 Mar;32(2):227-53.

Abstract

With the advent of bone scintigraphy, physicians achieved earlier detection of metastatic disease. In the prior two decades, bone imaging has expanded into the realm of tomography (SPECT, PET), and diverse clinical applications, including trauma, grafts, benign disease, and tumor imaging.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Bone Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon