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Serial bone scintigrams demonstrating obstructive uropathy and nephropathy due to transitional cell carcinoma of the
W J Shih1, F H DeLand, H J Biersack
1Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lexington, KY.
Abstract:
Serial 99mTc diphosphonate bone scintigraphic studies of two patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder demonstrated gradually progressive renal dysfunction. The abnormalities in the last bone scan of each patient were compatible with the findings of the concurrent 131I hippuran and 99mTc-DTPA studies, and were presumably secondary to obstruction of the ureteral orifices by tumor in the urinary bladder. Progressive renal dysfunction may be reliably demonstrated by serial 99mTc diphosphonate bone scintigraphy.
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