Role of Bone Scans in the Initial Assessment of Operable Patients with Breast Carcinoma
1981
: The yield and the prognostic significance of initially performed bone scintigraphy in 387 patients with operable mammary carcinoma are reported. The mean follow-up time was 52 months. In 12 patients (3.1%) the scintigraphy was considered to indicate bone metastases but in only 3 of these bone metastases later developed. The low information obtained has resulted in exclusion of bone scintigraphy in the initial assessment of clinically operable patients with mammary carcinoma.
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