The role of bone scanning in the detection of metastatic calcification: a case report
M A Nizami1, T Gerntholtz, C R Swanepoel
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|June 3, 2000
Abstract:
Metastatic calcification associated with renal failure is well described. Bone scanning agents accumulate to various degrees within extraskeletal sites of metastatic calcification. The authors describe a patient with polycystic kidney disease resulting in renal failure, with the subsequent development of secondary hyperparathyroidism and metastatic calcification. Bone scintigraphy revealed abnormal uptake in both lungs, the right leg, and the right hand.
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