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Photopenic areas on bone scanning associated with childhood leukemia
1Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio 44106.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Photopenic areas on bone scintigraphy is a rare presentation of childhood leukemia. This includes the more common acute lymphocytic leukemia as well as the far less common myelomonocytic leukemia. Other causes of photopenia on bone scintigraphy in these patients include relapse with marrow replacement and associated bone necrosis. Methotrexate therapy has also previously been described as showing similar photopenic areas secondary to bone necrosis.