[Localization by bone SPET of osteoid osteoma in the vertebral lamina]

Rev Esp Med Nucl. 1999;18(1):47-9.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The combined use of bone SPET and CT was a good approach for diagnosing an osteoid osteoma of spine in a 16-year-old young woman with a history of several months of back pain. Pain was increased at night and relieved by aspirin intake. Plain films of the spine only revealed a scoliosis. Bone SPET demonstrated a focal increased activity in the left posterior elements of T12 vertebra. CT of this vertebra discovered a lytic lesion in the left lamina. An osteoid osteoma was removed by laminectomy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Diphosphonates
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laminectomy
  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Osteolysis / etiology
  • Osteoma, Osteoid / complications
  • Osteoma, Osteoid / diagnostic imaging*
  • Osteoma, Osteoid / surgery
  • Spinal Neoplasms / complications
  • Spinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Spinal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging*
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / surgery
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Diphosphonates
  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • technetium Tc 99m 1,1-diphosphonopropane-2,3-dicarboxylic acid