ORAL PRESENTATION Open Access Spots and dots in the bones

Cancer imaging is frequently at the cutting edge of new imaging techniques which are often rapidly incorporated into routine use. Skeletal metastatic disease is a frequent complication of neoplastic conditions, and results in specific chal-lenges to the general radiologist and specialist oncologi-cal radiologist alike. Non-neoplastic conditions and normal variants may simulate skeletal metastases, and the radiologist must recognise such cases and avoid over-investigation and unnecessary treatment. This lecture will briefly review standard imaging tech-niques and demonstrate normal appearances, normal variants and non-neoplastic lesions that mimic primary and secondary skeletal malignancy, and will then revie