[Scanning of bone metastases (author's transl)].

The Centers against cancer of Caen, Angers, Montpellier, Strasbourg and "the Curie Foundation" have confronted their experience in detection of bone metastases by total body scanning. From the investigation by this procedure, of 1,467 patients with cancer, it results: --the confrontation between radio and scanning shows a rate of false positive and false negative identical to the literature ones; --the countage scanning allows to reduce the number of false positive; --scanning allows to direct bone biopsy and to improve efficiency of histological examination.