We report a case of a 2-mo-old girl with malignant osteopetrosis. Conventional radiological
investigations of the skull and left hand showed the characteristic pattern of generalized …

Bone marrow scintigraphy and magnetic resonance imaging were performed on a 17-year-
old girl with osteopetrosis for the evaluation of anemia. Bone marrow scintigraphy with ln …

Skeletal, reticuloendothelial and renal images were obtained on a patient with osteopetrosis
using Tc-99m MDP, Tc-99m HSA millimicrospheres and Tc-99m DTPA respectively. The …

A 23-year-old patient with osteopetrosis had Tc-99m SC scintigraphy to evaluate the bone
marrow stores and possible foci of extramedullary hematopoiesis. The bone marrow scan …

Background: Malignant infantile osteopetrosis (MIOP) is a sclerosing bone disease caused
by absence or defective function of osteoclasts. Since these are of haemopoietic origin, the …

Technetium-99m sulfur colloid scintigraphy was performed prospectively in 12 infants and
children with autosomal recessive osteopetrosis, to correlate the appearance of bone …

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the only curative therapy for autosomal
recessive infantile malignant osteopetrosis, an otherwise fatal disease. HSCT has also been …

Bone scintigraphy and dual x-ray absorptiometry were performed in 18 children (8 males, 10
females) with clinical and radiologic diagnoses of osteopetrosis in order to demonstrate the …

Skeletal and reticuloendothelial images, using Tc. 99m HEDP and Tc-99m sulfur coiloid
respectively, were obtained from two adult patients with osteopetrosis. Skeletal images …

Osteopetrosis is a rare congenital disorder of bone resorption, caused by failure of
osteoclasts to reabsorb immature bone. Malignant infantile osteopetrosis presents in early …