ABSTRACT
Metastatic calcification associated with renal failure is well described. Bone scanning agents accumulate to various degrees within extraskeletal sites of metastatic calcification. The authors describe a patient with polycystic kidney disease resulting in renal failure, with the subsequent development of secondary hyperparathyroidism and metastatic calcification. Bone scintigraphy revealed abnormal uptake in both lungs, the right leg, and the right hand.
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Calcinosis/diagnostic imaging , Lung Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Muscular Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Radiopharmaceuticals , Technetium Tc 99m Medronate , Female , Hand/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary/diagnostic imaging , Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary/etiology , Kidney Failure, Chronic/etiology , Middle Aged , Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant/complications , Radionuclide Imaging , Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi , Thigh/diagnostic imaging , Thumb/diagnostic imagingSubject(s)
Myositis/diagnostic imaging , Radiopharmaceuticals , Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime , Adult , Humans , Leukocytes , Male , Radionuclide ImagingABSTRACT
A number of reports describe how 99mTc-sestamibi detects benign and malignant primary and metastatic tumors. We report abnormal 99mTc-sestamibi uptake in nine sites in a 53-yr-old patient with histologically and biochemically proven IgG kappa-secreting myeloma. The 99mTc-sestamibi study was undertaken for an unrelated hyperparathyroidism.
