Abstract
Despite increasing reliance on CT, MRI, and FDG PET/CT for oncological imaging, whole-body skeletal scintigraphy remains a frontline modality for staging and surveillance of osseous metastatic disease. We present a 54-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer who received palliative external-beam radiation to the left ilium. Serial follow-up 99mTc-MDP bone scans demonstrated progressive soft-tissue uptake in her left lower extremity, extending from thigh to leg, with associated enlargement and skin thickening, consistent with lymphedema related to radiation-induced fibrosis. Correlative abdominopelvic CT scans confirmed fibrotic changes in the left thigh.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 231-234 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Clinical Nuclear Medicine |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2017 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- bone scan
- external-beam radiation
- fibrosis
- lymphedema
- radionuclide imaging
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
