The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine (대한핵의학회지)

The Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine (대한핵의학회)
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Photon Defects due to Residual Barium in the Colon Simulating Cold Bone Metastasis in Two Patients with Extraskeletal Cancer

골격외 종양 환자에서 냉소 골전이와 유사하게 보인 잔류 바리움에 의한 광자 결손

  • Lim, Seok-Tae (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School) ;
  • Kim, Min-Woo (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School) ;
  • Sohn, Myung-Hee (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School)
  • 임석태 (전북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 김민우 (전북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실) ;
  • 손명희 (전북대학교 의과대학 핵의학교실)
  • Published : 2002.10.30
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Abstract

One of common causes of cold defects on bone scintigraphy is an attenuation artifact. Cold defects can be produced by belt buckles, buttons, earring, necklaces, or other metal objects. Cold lesions in the abdomen are also produced by retained barium in the gastrointestinal tract after recent barium studies. We observed artifacts due to retained barium in the colon on bone scintigraphy, which simulated cold bone metastases in two patients with extraskeletal cancer.

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