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Common Variants and Pitfalls: Fibrous Dysplasia

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This chapter summarizes the imaging features of fibrous dysplasia, which accounts for approximately 2–5% of benign bone lesions and may be mistaken for malignant or metastatic disease. Some of the characteristics of fibrous dysplasia on imaging can help correctly classify these lesions.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA – IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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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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    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  2. Antwerp University Hospital, Wirijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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Van den Wyngaert, T. (2023). Common Variants and Pitfalls: Fibrous Dysplasia. 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_85

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