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Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine, vol.6, no.3, pp.324-326, 2015 (Scopus, TRDizin)
Aim: Bone scintigraphy is one of the commonly used radionuclide imaging and it is successfully used in the diagnosis and follow-up of many diseases. The aim of this study is to determine the indications and filming protocols of bone scintigraphy which was performed in our clinic. Material and Method: Two hundred and fifty two patients (132 male, 120 female) who was per-formed bone scintigprapy in our clinic between December 2011 and June 2013 included the study. Mean age was 50.1±20.2 years. Scintigraphic pro-tocols were made in two ways as late static whole body imaging and three-phase bone scintigraphy according to the type of the diseases. Indications of scintigraphies and scintigraphic protocols were detected. Results: Bone scintigraphy was performed for diagnosis and monitoring of metastatic bone disease to 102 patients (40,5%), for orthopedic applications to 57 patients (22,6%), for diagnosis and monitoring of primary bone tumors to 29 patients (11,5%), for diagnosis of osteomyelitis to 17 patients (6,7%), for differential diagnosis of infection and loosening of the prosthesis to 12 patients (4,8%), investigate the viability of the graft in 14 patients (4,6%), for rheu-matologic diseases to 9 patients (3,6%), for investigate the pathological vertebral fractures and osteoporosis to 4 patients (1,6%), for diagnosis the metabolic bone disease to 2 patients (0,8%), for diagnosis of otitis externa to 5 patients (1,98%) and for for suspicion of malignancy to 1 patient (0,4%). Late static whole body imaging protocol was applied to 136 patients (54%) and three-phase imaging protocol was applied to 116 patients (46%). Discussion: The most common use of bone scintigraphy is the diagnosis and follow-up of metastatic bone disease. It is followed by reasons such as orthopedic applications, monitoring and diagnosis of primary bone tumors and diagnosis of osteomyelitis.