Difficulty in determining the extent of metastatic lesions in bone scintigrams: A case report.

Radiation therapy for bone metastasis of malignant tumors is useful for reducing pain and is often used. Bone scintigraphy is useful for the early detection of bone metastasis and for staging, and is important in making plans for the irradiation of metastatic bone lesions. However, the images of metastatic bone lesions vary, so the irradiation field must be decided by comparison with plain films, computed tomography, and so on.