Do you need a CT scan or is an MRI enough? Why don't we use CT guided bone marrow biopsies?
VIEW TRANSCRIPT
expand_more
LECTURE QUIZ
While assessing issues in the bone and bone marrow, an MRI scan is easier, faster, and can be done more frequently.
A PET-CT Scan means the CT looks for lesions while PET assesses lesions with active myeloma cells. This means the PET-CT is better for monitoring myeloma and finding active lesions.
A bone marrow biopsy is not done at the site of a myeloma tumor or plasmacytoma because...