Distribution Features of Skeletal Metastases: A Comparative Study between Pulmonary and Prostate Cancers.

ABSTRACT: Bone scintigraphies are widely applied for detecting bone metastases. The aim of this study was to investigate distribution features of bone metastases in pulmonary and prostate cancers. Bone scintigraphies were performed in 460 patients with pulmonary cancer and 144 patients with prostate cancer. Patients were divided into three groups according to the total number of bone metastases: few bone metastases, moderate bone metastases, and extensive bone metastases. We compared the distribution of bone metastases in the two cancers, and analyzed the relationship between the distribution of metastatic lesions and their metastatic patterns. A total of 2279 and 2000 lesions of bone metastases were detected in 258 patients with pulmonary cancer and 102 patients with prostate cancer, respectively.

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658130 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature