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From: Quantitative 3D scintigraphy shows increased muscular uptake of pyrophosphate in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Fig. 2

Maximum intensity projection images showing the distribution of 99mTc-PYP. a Upper body of a control person (left) and a patient with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (right). b Lower body of a control person (left) and a patient with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (right). In the control person, bones are clearly delineated, whereas in the patient, the muscular and the skeletal uptake are confluent. c Examples of an irregular 99mTc-PYP uptake leading to hot spots in the muscles of a patient with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Hot spots are marked with red arrows

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