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Giant Cell Tumors (GCT)/Osteoclastomas

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GCT are locally aggressive benign primary bone tumors with chances of malignant transformation. Bone scan shows peripheral increased uptake called as doughnut sign. It is useful in diagnosis and look for bone metastasis. SPECT/CT shows soap bubble appearance increasing its specificity.

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

    P. Sai Sradha Patro & Kanhaiyalal Agrawal

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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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Patro, P.S.S., Agrawal, K. (2023). Giant Cell Tumors (GCT)/Osteoclastomas. 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_262

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