Fluorine-18 deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Bone Scintigraphy for the Diagnosis of Bone Metastases in Patients with Lung Cancer: Which One is the Best? - a Meta-analysis

18FDG PET was found to be the best modality to detect bone metastasis in patients with lung cancer, both on a per-patient basis and a per-lesion basis; MRI had the highest specificity on a per-lesion basis. For the subgroup analysis of 18FDG PET, PET/computed tomography was shown to be better than PET and there were no significant differences between using 68Ge and computed tomography for attenuation correction on a per-patient basis.