The contribution of bone SPECT to the diagnosis of bone metastases in an African population

Abstract

In a setting where SPECT is not easily available, planar imaging alone is still adequate in the vast majority of cases.

Impact of additional SPECT in bone scanning in tumor patients with suspected metastatic bone disease

“…The results from prospective trials might not be applicable to clinical routine, because these trials included highly selected patient collectives which are not representative for everyday clinical routine. Only few studies have evaluated the value of additional SPECT in unselected patients from clinical routine [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], all of them with rather small sample sizes. Some of these studies reported the fraction of lesions missed in planar images but detected by SPECT to be significant (20.1-25.6%) [5,6], while other authors found this fraction to be rather small (4.3%) [7].…”