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Bone imaging in a case of chronic fluorine intoxication with mineral water
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|November 1, 1986
Abstract:
A patient with chronic fluorine intoxication from mineral water demonstrated an abnormal intense uptake of Tc-99m MDP in the whole spine, the bone metaphyseal regions, and the sternum ("tie sternum"). Results of a bone biopsy revealed an intense osteomalacia and a high fluorine concentration. Bone imaging performed one year after the patient stopped drinking mineral water was normal.