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A member asked:
Can nuclear bone scans distinguish between joint inflammation caused by rheumatoid arthritis and inflammation caused by lupus? if so, how?
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It can't: Unfortunately the bone scans cannot differentiate between cancer, inflammation or infection. Those conditions both would/could cause a lot swelling of the synovium which would just show up as a flaring on the bone scan, not different from each other.
Answered 12/7/2016
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