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Metastatic Disease of the Spine: The Contribution of Bone Scintigraphy

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Tumors

Part of the book series: Radiology of the Spine ((SPINE))

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The skeleton is one of the most frequent sites of tumor metastasis, only the lung and the liver being more frequently affected.

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  1. Service de Radiodiagnostic, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des Tumeurs de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rue Heger-Bordet 1, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Louis Jeanmart

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Frühling, J. (1986). Metastatic Disease of the Spine: The Contribution of Bone Scintigraphy. In: Jeanmart, L. (eds) Tumors. Radiology of the Spine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49303-4_8

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