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Metastatic Osseous Disease Masquerading as Infection, Diagnosed on Bone Scintigraphy and SPECT/CT
Gracie A Keown1, Sunderarajan Jayaraman2, Jennifer Davidson2
1Nuclear Medicine Department, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland District Health Board, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand gracie.keown@gmail.com.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
|December 8, 2019
Abstract:
We present a 72-y-old woman with an osseous metastasis to the spine that had an atypical appearance on both nuclear medicine and radiologic modalities and was misdiagnosed as an abscess. We discuss the pitfalls of bone scintigraphy and the causes of photopenic metastatic lesions.

