Utility of Bone Scan in Evaluating Patients with Clinically Indeterminate Diagnosis of Cancer in a Low-resource Practice.

Solitary lesions on the BS are usually of equivocal significance; 50% of them turn out to be malignant.[ 20 ] An exception must be made for sternal lesions in breast cancer patients; these are deemed metastatic until otherwise proved after having excluded previous sternal trauma.[ 21 ] Interestingly, solitary lesions have a more favorable prognosis than multiple or widespread lesions.[ 22 ] This implies that solitary suspicious lesions should not be regarded as being malignant by default.

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