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From: A comparative study of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and 99mTc-MDP whole-body bone scanning for imaging osteolytic bone metastases

Figure 2

A 32-year-old man with an unknown primary lesion and multiple bone metastases. There was no focally increased uptake detected in the bone scanning (BS) image (A). PET-CT revealed that the bone substance of the ninth thoracic vertebral body and its adjunct, the third lumbar vertebral body and left ilium, was destroyed. 18FDG uptake in these areas was significantly increased. The maximum standardized uptake value is 3.96 (B and C). More metastatic lesions were detected using 18F-FDG PET-CT than 99mTc-MDP BS.

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