{"title":"Metastatic Osseous Disease Masquerading as Infection, Diagnosed on Bone Scintigraphy and SPECT/CT","authors":"Gracie Ann Keown, S. Jayaraman, J. Davidson","doi":"10.2967/jnmt.119.232850","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a 72-y-old woman with an osseous metastasis to the spine that had an atypical appearance on both nuclear medicine and radiologic modalities and was misdiagnosed as an abscess. We discuss the pitfalls of bone scintigraphy and the causes of photopenic metastatic lesions.","PeriodicalId":22799,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology","volume":"35 1","pages":"179 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.119.232850","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We present a 72-y-old woman with an osseous metastasis to the spine that had an atypical appearance on both nuclear medicine and radiologic modalities and was misdiagnosed as an abscess. We discuss the pitfalls of bone scintigraphy and the causes of photopenic metastatic lesions.