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| Character of sternal uptake on bone scintigraphy |
| LI Li-juan, ZHANG Guang-wei, CAO Jin-hong, REN Fu-lin |
| Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan 030001, China |
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Abstract Objective: To describe the normal appearance of the sternal area on bone scintigraphy. Methods: 120 patients, who did not have symptoms of the sternum or a history of malignancy, underwent whole-body bone scan and were evaluated for characters of sternal uptake. Results: ①In pediatric patients, their character was similar, and sternal uptake was homogeneous. In other patients, the sternum showed markedly different, and seven different patterns of sternal uptake were noted. ②The most common hot spot was at the angle of Louis, and there was focal spot of decreased tracer uptake in the lower sternum. Conclusion: This study showed age-related normal variants of sternal uptake. Understanding these variants may be helpful in differentiating normal and abnormal patterns of uptake in the sternum on radionuclide bone imaging.
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Received: 05 February 2007
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2007, Vol. 18 
