Bone scan for diagnosis of metastasis induced bone cancer
- Author:
Chau Thi Minh Trinh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
bone cancer
- MeSH:
Bone Neoplasms;
diagnosis;
Neoplasm Metastasis;
Bone and Bones
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;233(2):54-57
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
During 1994-1997, the nuclear medicine department of Cho Ray hospital diagnosed clinically 1938 patients with the cancer and implemented the scintigraphy to discover the metastasis. 816 patients with the cancer with the high risk of metastasis including the breast cancer, vaginal cancer, lung cancer, prostate gland cancer and thyroid cancer which arranged as kind of cancer and age. The bone scintigraphy help classifying the cancer with metastaisi and the comparision of the rate of metastasis into bone in this study with this rate reported by the Utrecht University of Ha Lan.
