Open AccessAn uncommon case showing three different pathologies on99mtechnetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy
Author(s) -
Partha Sarathi Chakraborty,
Sellam Karunanithi,
Varun Singh Dhull,
KM Prasanna Kumar,
Rekha Gupta,
Madhavi Tripathi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.147555
Subject(s) - medicine , skull , etiology , technetium , scintigraphy , bone scintigraphy , osteomyelitis , technetium 99m , soft tissue , nuclear medicine , radiology , pathology , anatomy , surgery
(99m)Technetium-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy (BS) has an important role in evaluating skeletal pathology, especially its extent. Incidental extra-osseous uptake may sometimes be seen in soft-tissue pathologies. We present a 64-year-old female with skull base osteomyelitis referred for BS which revealed involvement of the skull base on the left side, uptake was also noted in bilateral lungs secondary to hypercalcemia of renal failure and in the D12-L1 vertebrae as the patient had a history of Pott's spine. This is perhaps a unique case showing three findings each of a different etiology in the same scan.