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The diagnosis of bone metastases is usually performed through bone scintigraphy.
The presence or absence of bone metastasis in patients was determined by bone scintigraphy, and was confirmed by conventional radiography (X-ray) as necessary.
As many as 30% of patients with breast cancer who have undergone curative surgery and show no evidence of locoregional or distant disease still have recurrent disease over 5-10 years [ 1 2 ] . Some of these treatment failures may be attributed to residual disease in the breast or axillary lymph nodes [ 3 ] . The limitation of routine histopathologic examination of the tumor margins and the dissected lymph node specimen is well known [ 4 ] . Contemporary methods of detection, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy and flow cytometry, all have limited sensitivity and specificity [ 5 6 ] . Micrometastases can be found by immunohistochemistry or polymerase chain reaction in 10-30% of the patients previously deemed free of disease by conventional histological methods [ 7 8 ] . The prognostic importance of micrometastases found with these sensitive methods are now being evaluated [ 9 10 11 ] .
Rutlen et al ., using nuclear scintigraphy, reported that 150 ml or less of blood transferred to the intravascular space after leg elevation [ 15].