The evaluation of whole-body bone scanning in detecting bone metastases in patients with lung cancer
- VernacularTitle:全身骨扫描在临床诊断肺癌骨转移中的作用
- Author:
Ren ZHU
;
Jianfang XU
;
Haiping ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
whole-body bone scanning;
lung cancer;
bone metastases
- From:
China Oncology
2001;0(05):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Background and purpose:The skeleton is one of the most common sites of metastasis in patients with lung cancer.Bone metastases often cause poor prognosis.It is important to early detect bone metastases.Therefore,we planned a retrospective study to investigate the role of radionuclide bone scanning with 99mTc-MDP in detecting bone metastases in lung cancer patients.Methods:It was a retrospective analysis.400 patients with lung cancer diagnosed in our hospital from 2005.5 to 2007.5 were recruited.Using 99mTc-MDP bone scanning,we analyzed the symptoms,sites,numbers,pathological types and TNM stages of bone metastases.Results:Ostealgia was the most frequent symptom in lung cancer patients with bone metastases.The sites of bone metastases were:thoracic bones(41.52%),vertebras(32.31%),pelvic bones(15.89%),extremities(8.68%),skull(1.60%).126 patients had multiple bone metastases(80.25%).There was a statistical significance of bone metastases in adenocarcinoma patients(48.09%)compared with in squamous cell carcinoma patients(33.33%)(P
