See Also: bone metastases(medicine)
bone metastases in kids(medicine)
sclerotic bone metastases(medicine)
bone scan- falsely negative metastases(medicine)
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liver metastases(medicine)
metastases to the liver(medicine)
spleen metastases(medicine)

bone metastases (medicine)


bone metastases
<radiology> Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98%, False negatives: multiple myeloma, thyroid carcinoma, small, purely lytic lesions, oat cell carcinoma Specificity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High, False positives: Paget's disease, arthritis, fibrous dysplasia, infection, trauma, new or old REF: MacNeil BJ. Value of bone scanning in neoplastic disease. Semin Nucl Med 14:277, 1984.