Role of skeletal scintigraphy in soft tissue sarcoma: Improving the diagnostic yield.

Background: The presence of skeletal metastases significantly influences the therapeutic strategy adopted for soft tissue sarcoma. However, literature on the prevalence of skeletal metastases in soft tissue sarcoma is limited and none of the available data is based on the Indian patient population.

Aim: To determine the prevalence of skeletal metastases at presentation in patients of soft tissue sarcoma and to rationalise the use of preoperative skeletal scintigraphy in such patients.

Bone scan demonstrating metastasis to the breast from an ovarian carcinoma and a review of the literature.

Breast metastasis from a primary ovarian neoplasm is very rare. We report a case of breast metastasis along with involvement of the liver, spleen, and pelvis from ovarian carcinoma in a 54-year-old woman demonstrated by whole-body bone scanning. Ovarian metastatic deposits frequently show calcification, and a Tc-99m MDP bone scan could be useful in determining the extent of calcified soft tissue metastatic spread in these patients.