Benign bone disease

This paper discusses how the use of bone imaging in benign disease has advanced rapidly in the past few years. In many instances, we are still only feeling our way in finding the advantages and disadvantages of this procedure in evaluating benign disease. It is to be expected that this process will continue to evolve with further studies of skeletal imaging. Nonetheless, skeletal imaging remains a valuable tool in the study of benign diseases provided good communication is established between the referring clinician and nuclear medicine physician in order to tailor the procedure to answer the clinical question. Attention to technical factors remains all important, as does continuing efforts to increase knowledge concerning the patterns of benign disease that may be presented by bone imaging