# Bone scintigraphy

Bone scintigraphy

Isotope bone scans are highly sensitive, but non-specific, tests that are useful for screening the skeletal system for metastatic disease, discitis or vertebral body osteomyelitis, or to assess the relative activity of  bone lesions such as osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, defects in the pars interarticularis or a pseudar - throsis (incomplete fusion). In the case of  multiple myeloma or purely lytic metastases, the bone scan may not show increased activity as these tumours may not stimulate a significant osteoblastic response. Bone scintigraphy

Isotope bone scans are highly sensitive, but non-specific, tests that are useful for screening the skeletal system for metastatic disease, discitis or vertebral body osteomyelitis, or to assess the relative activity of  bone lesions such as osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, defects in the pars interarticularis or a pseudar - throsis (incomplete fusion). In the case of  multiple myeloma or purely lytic metastases, the bone scan may not show increased activity as these tumours may not stimulate a significant osteoblastic response. Bone scintigraphy

Isotope bone scans are highly sensitive, but non-specific, tests that are useful for screening the skeletal system for metastatic disease, discitis or vertebral body osteomyelitis, or to assess the relative activity of  bone lesions such as osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, defects in the pars interarticularis or a pseudar - throsis (incomplete fusion). In the case of  multiple myeloma or purely lytic metastases, the bone scan may not show increased activity as these tumours may not stimulate a significant osteoblastic response.