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1Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
The Orthopedic Clinics of North America
|February 28, 1998
Abstract:
Nuclear medicine provides information about bone physiology that complements anatomic imaging modalities. Following a review of the principles of bone scintigraphy, scintigraphic imaging of orthopedic problems, such as primary and secondary neoplastic disease of the skeleton, occult fracture, stress fracture, and osteomyelitis are discussed.