Modern Detection of Prostate Cancer's Bone Metastasis: Is the Bone Scan Era Over?
Figure 1
Example of a 55 years old patient diagnosed with high-risk localized disease. bone scan shows an area of uptake in the body of the 3rd lumbar vertebra ((a) and (b)). Confirmatory X-ray is read as normal (c) although MRI of the axial skeleton (T1 sequence, (d)) shows a large focal area of malignant replacement of the bone marrow.