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Recent bone scintigrapy showed no hot spots other than my lumbar spine. does this mean all my other joints are ok? x-rays have shown oa in many joints
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Inflammation: Scintigraphy lights up to ID blood or fluid movements, infection, inflammation, and cancer and has many uses to identify structures and functional processes in different organ systems
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