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Osteoblastoma: A Benign Bone Tumor

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Osteoblastomas are rare benign primary bone tumor, commonly located in posterior elements of spine causing neurological pain. Surgical resection is indicated and bone scan has high sensitivity for its detection. SPECT/CT increases its specificity by showing its peculiar CT features and exact anatomical localization.

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

    Kanhaiyalal Agrawal & P. Sai Sradha Patro

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

    Kanhaiyalal Agrawal MD

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Agrawal, K., Patro, P.S.S. (2023). Osteoblastoma: A Benign Bone Tumor. 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_259

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