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Bone scan of the spread of prostate cancer

Courtesy of Intermountain Medical Imaging, Boise, Idaho.

Figure 1 shows a normal whole-body scan. Figure 2 shows cancer of the prostate that has spread to the spine.

Primary Medical Reviewer Patrice Burgess, MD
- Family Medicine
Specialist Medical Reviewer Kenneth B. Sutherland, CD, BSc, MD, FRCPC
- Diagnostic Radiology
Last Updated November 1, 2006

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Last Updated: November 01, 2006
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