Abstract
A 5-year-old girl presented with a rapidly growing osteosarcoma of the proximal right tibia. The radiographically osteoblastic lesions appeared as a ‘cold’ on the 99mTc-MDP bone scan. Possible explantations for this unusual finding on the bone scan are discuessed.
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Siddiqui, A.R., Ellis, J.H. ‘Cold spot’ on bone scan at the site of primary osteosarcoma. Eur J Nucl Med 7, 480–481 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253086
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253086