[The importance of the gammagraphic examination of the skeleton in the diagnostic and therapeutic strategy in carcinoma of the prostate].

One hundred and sixty patients with the diagnosis of prostate cancer have been treated at the Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Oncology in Brno over the last 10 years. The present paper has been devoted to the diagnostics of skeleton by scintigraphy as compared with X-ray examination of bones. Scintiscanning of skeleton was performed on a gamma-graph Picker 500 i, 99mTc pyrophosphate was used and scintiscanning was performed in the usual examination regimen.