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Query: UMLS:C0039483 (
giant cell arteritis
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Radionuclide bone scintigraphy is a sensitive but not a specific technique for the diagnosis of
bone metastases
. Three patients, a man of 67 on steroid therapy because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and prostate cancer, a woman of 76 on steroid therapy because of
temporal arteritis
and a 50-year-old man with pain in the back, had bone scintigrams showing abnormal uptake (hot spots). There were delays of months before the diagnosis of osteoporosis instead of
bone metastases
was made. Abnormal uptake on a bone scintigram is often non-specific and requires further evaluation using supplementary diagnostic techniques.
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PMID:[Hot spots: metastases or osteoporosis?]. 934 May 50
