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Advances in Medical Imaging Applied to Bone Metastases
- Source :
- Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname, Medical Imaging, Dipòsit Digital de la UB, Universidad de Barcelona
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- InTech, 2011.
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Abstract
- Bone metastases are the result of a primary cancer invasion which spreads into the bone marrow through the lymphogenous or hematogenous pathways. Bone metastases are a common complication of cancer.The primary cancers that most frequently metastasize to bone are breast and prostate cancer (65 - 75 %) amongst many others (thyroid 42 %, lung 36 % or kidney 35 %) (Suva et al., 2011). Although the exact incidence of bone metastases is unknown given its dependence on the type of primary cancer, it is estimated that 350,000 people die of bone metastases annually in the United States. [Okechukwu Felix Erondu, Ed.] Medical Imaging, 2011, p.339-354
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Bones
Lung
Medical radiology
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Thyroid
Primary cancer
medicine.disease
Metastasis
Prostate cancer
medicine.anatomical_structure
Metàstasi
Radiologia mèdica
Ossos
Medical imaging
medicine
Radiology
Bone marrow
Complication
business
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname, Medical Imaging, Dipòsit Digital de la UB, Universidad de Barcelona
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e1af0311b4c9d6646bce6bbf29a69922
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5772/28519