[Effectiveness of conventional diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine in the treatment of pain from bone metastases]

Recenti Prog Med. 2013 Jul-Aug;104(7-8):350-5. doi: 10.1701/1315.14574.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Bone is one of the most common metastasis sites from solid tumors. Bone pain due to metastatic neoplastic growth is due to tumor infiltration and expansion of bone membranes. Treatment of acute and chronic pain represents one of the greatest problems in clinical oncology, requiring a multidisciplinary approach. This review focuses on the effectiveness of conventional diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine for the detection, management and treatment of pain from bone metastasis.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acute Pain / diagnosis
  • Acute Pain / diagnostic imaging
  • Acute Pain / etiology
  • Acute Pain / radiotherapy
  • Bone Marrow Diseases / etiology
  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone Neoplasms / physiopathology
  • Bone Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Bone Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Chronic Pain / diagnosis
  • Chronic Pain / diagnostic imaging
  • Chronic Pain / etiology
  • Chronic Pain / radiotherapy
  • Fluorine Radioisotopes
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Humans
  • Multimodal Imaging / methods
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Pain / diagnosis
  • Pain / diagnostic imaging
  • Pain / etiology*
  • Pain / radiotherapy
  • Pain Management / methods*
  • Palliative Care
  • Positron-Emission Tomography / methods*
  • Radiation Injuries / etiology
  • Radiopharmaceuticals / adverse effects
  • Radiopharmaceuticals / therapeutic use*
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate / analogs & derivatives
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / methods*
  • Whole Body Imaging

Substances

  • Fluorine Radioisotopes
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • technetium Tc 99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate