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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Conclusions: There is no statistical difference between PET/CT scan compared with bone scan when bone scan is utilized as the standard test for detection of ...
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 ...
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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 ...
May 25, 2020 · Conclusions: PET-CT showed higher efficiency in bone metastasis detection than Bone Scintigraphy, probably because it detects lytic lesions. The ...
May 2, 2013 · Bone PET sensitivity for individual metastatic lesions was superior to the bone scan. However, bone PET and bone scan had comparable ...
In a recent study by de Leiris et al. bone scan with SPECT/CT showed a good performance for bone metastasis detection in prostate cancer patients with ...
May 1, 2020 · Aim: To compare F-18 FDG PET/CT to Tc-99m MDP bone scan in assessment of metastatic osseous burden in breast cancer patients with bone ...
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