1 Vertebral fracture with suspected bone metastasis
2 Suspected Multiple Myeloma
3.1 Staging
3.2 Monitoring treatment response
4 Suspected metastatic bone disease
5.1 Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
5.2 Gaucher’s disease
5.3 Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
6 Evaluate bone pain
7 Spinal cord compression
8 Evaluate bone marrow edema
9 Evaluate high-risk monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
(MGUS)
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