Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology (Korean J Nucl Med Technol)

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Femoral Metastasis in Bone Mineral Densitometry

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jeonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Korea

Correspondence to Han-Kyung Seo, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jeonbuk National University Hospital, 634-18 Keumam-dong, Duckjingu, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-712, Korea, Tel : +82-63-250-2326, E-mail : shg@jbuh.co.kr

Volume 27, Number 1, Article 1, May 2023. Korean J Nucl Med Technol 2023;27(1):1. https://doi.org/10.12972/kjnmt.20230001
Received on December 08, 2022, Revised on March 24, 2023, Accepted on March 28, 2023, Published on May 31, 2023.
Copyright © 2023 Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A 50-year-old female patient referred by the Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery was recommended for orthopedic surgery because a lesion-like herniation pit was found in the left proximal femur in bone mineral densitometry (BMD). She was later diagnosed with bone metastasis based on a biopsy in orthopedic surgery. Pelvic X-ray and left thigh MRI were performed. An intramedullary nail was later inserted. The BMD is a diagnostic method based on numerical values, so it is inevitable that the bone shape may be neglected. This case report illustrates the importance of the radiotechnologist’s observation of the bone shape. In our patient, it led to beneficial treatment.
Keywords

Bone Mineral Densitometry, Bone Metastasis, Intra-medullary Nail

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