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Recent advances in bone marrow scanning

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Interest in bone marrow scanning has been renewed as the result of the development of radiopharmaceuticals for evaluating specific aspects of bone marrow anatomy, physiology and pathology. This article provides a brief review of bone marrow structure, blood flow and function essential to the understanding of basic principles of bone marrow radionuclide imaging. The prospects and limitations of imaging haematopoietic bone marrow in man using indium 111 chloride, technetium-99m (99mTc)-labelled microcolloid or99mTc-labelled monoclonal antigranulocytic and antimyelocytic antibodies are discussed in more detail. The technical aspects of bone marrow scintigraphy are presented. Results of more recent studies evaluating bone marrow scanning in circulatory, inflammatory and in systemic haematological disorders are summarized. Special attention is paid to the concept of bone marrow micrometastases and its implications for the follow-up of patients with malignant tumours. Recent results suggest that immunoscintigraphy of bone marrow may provide a novel and sensitive approach for establishing the presence and extent of bone marrow infiltration.

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Reske, S.N. Recent advances in bone marrow scanning. Eur J Nucl Med 18, 203–221 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02262732

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