[Bone scintigraphy: diagnostic value and indications (author's transl)].

Bone scintigraphy is of considerable help in the diagnosis and follow-up of osteo-articular diseases. It also makes it possible to globally assess skeletal damage in cases with multiple bone lesions and to detect bone complications of diseases and therapies. To these advantages must now be added its contribution to the aetiological diagnosis of some arthropathies with subradiological lesions.