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A patient with a muscle hernia in the thigh showed increased muscle uptake of radioactivity during bone imaging using 99mTc-pyrophosphate. The area of excessive accumulation corresponded well to the location and extent of the herniated muscle tissue observed at surgery. Microscopic examination revealed chronic muscle damage, which was assumed to be responsible for the abnormal muscle labelling found in this patient.
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Shigeno, C., Fukunaga, M., Yamamoto, I. et al. Accumulation of 99mTc-pyrophosphate in a muscle hernia of the thigh. Eur J Nucl Med 6, 425–428 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266435
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