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ArticleIndian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India2014

Role of (99m)Tc-MDP bone scan in the diagnosis of Erdheim-Chester disease.

Anirban Mukherjee, Nishikant Damle, Chandrasekhar Bal, Arundeep Arora, Abhinav Singhal, Madhavi Tripathi, Karan Peepre

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Article in Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Anirban MukherjeeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Nishikant DamleDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Chandrasekhar BalDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Arundeep AroraDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Abhinav SinghalDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Madhavi TripathiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Karan PeepreDepartment of Nuclear Medicine Unit, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences · INGandhi Medical College · IN

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Abstract

Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare systemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. It is a progressive disease of unknown etiology. The (99m)technetium-methylene diphosphonate ((99m)Tc-MDP) bone scan is useful in finding the sites of involvement in the skeleton and is helpful in excluding other causes of bony pain. Also a scintigraphic pattern consistent with ECD should alert the physician to evaluate the patient for visceral sites of involvement using fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT), as this is known to be fatal at times.

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99mTc MDP bone scanErdheim chester diseasefludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography

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