This chapter will consider the role of planar scintigraphy, SPECT and PET in the imaging of
skeletal metastatic disease from a miscellaneous group of malignancies, including lung …

In this review, we assess the current role of single-photon emission computed tomography
(SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) in the imaging of skeletal metastatic …

Metastatic disease is the most common malignancy of the bone and the skeleton is one of
the preferential sites for metastases of solid tumor. Osteotropic radiopharmaceuticals are …

Since its introduction into clinical medicine 50 years ago, the radionuclide bone scan has
played a key role in diagnosing a variety of osseous disorders; particularly metastatic …

Publisher Summary Bone metastases are the most common malignant bone tumors.
Skeletal involvement varies in different human malignancies, with breast cancer being the …

Although planar bone scintigraphy with 99mTc-labelled bisphosphonates has been the
mainstay for imaging skeletal metastases for nearly four decades, it has been limited by poor …

Cancers prone to spread to bone include prostate, lung, kidney, breast and thyroid cancers.
While bone scanner has been widely used in the past decades, PET-based imaging …

BACKGROUND Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine technique that
only recently has been widely used in clinical oncology. PET, as a metabolic imaging …

Background Accurate staging of lung cancer is essential for effective patient management
and selection of appropriate therapeutic strategy. The aim of this paper was to compare the …

224 Objectives: Bone metastases affect the prognosis and management in significant
number of cases of lung cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of 18F …