[Is short-term follow-up by skeletal scintigraphy of use in deciding on curative irradiation of inoperable non-small cell bronchial carcinoma? The experiences with 363 cases].

: In a series of 363 patients, it was investigated if close-meshed bone scintigraphy is valuable for the decision whether or not to perform a high-dose curative radiotherapy of non-small cell bronchial carcinomas. The control of the bone scintigram made at the time of diagnosis, which was performed during the last phase of the treatment period before finally defining the treatment aim, was only helpful in some exceptional cases. Therefore a control of the first examination is not necessary if the latter has been performed not more than six months ago and if in the meantime no suspicious findings or other symptoms of a formation of skeletal metastases have been observed.