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Osteopoikilosis: Bone Scintigraphy and Imaging Features

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Osteopoikilosis is a rare autosomal dominant condition characterized by multiple benign enostoses. The lesions of osteopoikilosis are mostly located in the epiphyseal and metaphyseal region of tubular bones, with the hands and feet affected most, followed by the pelvis, radius, ulna, sacrum, tibia, and fibula. In this chapter, we discuss the imaging features of osteopoikilosis with an emphasis on bone scintigraphy.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

    Kanhaiyalal Agrawal & Parneet Singh

  2. Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Geoffrey Chow & Thomas Armstrong

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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  1. Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

    Arum Parthipun

  2. Royal Free London Hospital, London, UK

    Malavika Nathan

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Agrawal, K., Singh, P., Chow, G., Armstrong, T. (2023). Osteopoikilosis: Bone Scintigraphy and Imaging Features. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_214

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