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BOF 42
The main indications for bone scintigraphy now a days are all but one of the followings:
1-bone metastasis
2-bone or joint sepsis
3-early osteonecrosis
4-stress fractures
5-multiple myeloma

Answer 5
Also other indications: reflex sympathetic dystrophy and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and useful in the assessment of the extent of Paget’s disease of the bone
In MM, it depends on the osteoblatstic activity which is inhibited in MM, so it is not useful here, only if complicated by fractures

 

 

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