BONE SCINTIGRAPHY

  • Acute and chronic infections of the bone
  • Acute pyogenic arthritis
  • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB of bone)
  • Non-infective inflammation of the bone
  • Osteoarthritis; Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Assessing for and determining therapeutic response in Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS)
  • Avascular necrosis or Perthe’s disease
  • Traumatic and Sports injuries of bone
  • Metabolic disease of bone
  • Benign and primary malignant bone tumours
  • Metastatic bone tumours