Osteoblastic metastases from breast carcinoma with false-negative bone scan.

Skeletal Radiol

Department of Radiology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Published: July 1997

The authors report a case of metastatic breast carcinoma that on investigation was shown to have a negative bone scan in spite of multiple densely sclerotic metastases on radiography and CT and a positive bone biopsy. The literature is reviewed with regard to the subject of negative bone scans in this situation.

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