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SUBMITTER: Shin E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5721091 | biostudies-other | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Shin Eonwoo E Oh Minyoung M Sung Changhwan C Kim Ki-Hun KH Ryu Jin-Sook JS
Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 20170725 4
We report a case with altered biodistribution of <sup>99m</sup>Tc-dicarboxypropane diphosphonate (<sup>99m</sup>Tc-DPD) on whole body bone scan after intravenous iron supplement therapy. A 47-year-old male patient who had recently been detected with a hepatic mass suggestive of hepatocellular carcinoma underwent bone scan as staging work-up before surgery. Bone scan images at 3 h after injection of <sup>99m</sup>Tc-DPD demonstrated unusually increased blood pool activities in the heart, liver, a ...[more]