What are the benefits of bone scanning?

What are the benefits of bone scanning?

Similar to the other procedures in general medicine and in PET, benefits of bone scanning is tremendous, because it tells us, depending upon the what disease process that we're looking at, a good amount of diagnostic information, which is important in the care for the patient. For example, in tumour scanning, we are able to find out what the extent of the disease is to the bone from the primary tumour, and that can impact treatment to that patient. If the patient is suffering from infection in the bone, we are able to image that and treat the patient appropriately if the infection is, in fact, seen. In patients who have fractures, that also can be important for the appropriate treatment, for example, if the patient who has fractures in parts of their spine. It's also being used in child abuse cases where there are different types of fractures of varying age in children, and it can be an important part of the puzzle to see if, in fact, there has been child abuse case.