$^{99m}Tc-MDP$ Uptake Pattern of Normal Pubic Bone

정상 골스캔에서 치골 핵종 섭취 패턴

  • Chung, Myung-Hee (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College) ;
  • Lee, Hong-Jae (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College) ;
  • Kim, Sung-Hoon (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College) ;
  • Chung, Soo-Kyo (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College) ;
  • Yim, Jung-Ik (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College) ;
  • Shinn, Kyung-Sub (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College) ;
  • Bahk, Yong-Whee (Department of Radiology, Catholic University Medical College)
  • 정명희 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 이홍재 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 김성훈 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 정수교 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 임정익 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 신경섭 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 박용휘 (가톨릭대학 의학부 방사선과학교실)
  • Published : 1992.12.31

Abstract

In order to establish the clinical significance of pubic bone uptake of radionuclide on $^{99m}Tc-MDP$ bone scintigraphs, we analyzed uptake patterns of normal adult pubic bone in 300 randomly sampled subjects. Bone scintigraphy was performed in each patient for the reasons other than pubic or pelvic problems. One-hundred-fifty-four were men and 146 women. The age ranged from 8 to 78 years. The pubic uptake was graded arbitrarily into 4 grades by comparing the pubic uptake density with that of L5 vertebra. Thus, grade I was defined as the L5 density greater than the pubic density, grade II as the L5 density equals to the pubic density, grade III as the L5 density less than the pubic cdensity, and grade IV as the L5 density much less than the pubic density. Statistical analysis revealed negative trend in the pubic uptake from grade IV to grade I with age. There was no sexual difference in the pubic uptake. The women in the 3rd and 4th decades disclosed higher pubic uptake (grades III, IV) probably due to pregnancy and labor.

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