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Skeletal scintigraphy in coeliac disease
Author(s) -
PAUL R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2796.1990.tb00252.x
Subject(s) - medicine , coeliac disease , scintigraphy , malignancy , pathological , skeleton (computer programming) , disease , pathology , radiology , anatomy
. A patient with undiagnosed, long‐standing coeliac disease had multiple hot spots on skeletal scintigraphy, similar to those observed in malignant disease metastatic to the skeleton. A gluten‐free diet corrected the pathological laboratory values, and a repeat skeletal scintigram 15 months after the first one was normal. It is important to identify the secondary hyperparathyroidism of coeliac disease as a cause of multiple hot spots in skeletal scintigraphy—the finding resembles malignancy, but is due to a benign, curable condition.