Bone scan depends on the osteoblastic response to bone destruction by tumor cells,and FDG-PET/CT detects the metabolic activity of the tumor cells. Therefore FDG PET/CT and bone scan are complementary modalities and bone scan is still important tool to detect bone metastases besides cost.
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CONCLUSION. Bone SPECT is superior to FDG PET in detecting bone metastases in breast cancer. The sensitivity of osteoblastic lesions is limited with FDG PET.
Sep 15, 2022 · In conclusion, evidence-based data demonstrate that bone scintigraphy is clearly inferior to PSMA-targeted PET in terms of diagnostic accuracy ...
Oct 10, 2008 · Overall, PET/CT is shown to be more specific for metastatic disease than bone scan. Ohta and colleagues compared PET and bone scan in evaluation ...
Apr 8, 2023 · PET/CT presented higher values of accuracy and sensitivity (98.0% and 93.83%), surpassing BS (95.61% and 81.48%) in detecting bone disease.
May 25, 2020 · Conclusions: PET-CT showed higher efficiency in bone metastasis detection than Bone Scintigraphy, probably because it detects lytic lesions. The ...
Aug 25, 2023 · PET scans, bone scans, and other nuclear medicine scans can help doctors find tumors and see how much the cancer has spread in the body ...
May 2, 2013 · Bone PET sensitivity for individual metastatic lesions was superior to the bone scan. However, bone PET and bone scan had comparable ...