From: Effect of the types of pretreatment imaging modalities on the treatment response to palliative radiation for painful bone metastases from solid cancer: a single-center retrospective analysis
Odds ratio
95% CI
p-value
Metastases site (Vertebral or non-vertebral)
1.18
0.4482–3.1082
0.74
Pathological fracture
2.06
0.7252–5.8318
0.18
MRI
1.14
0.4553–2.8480
0.78
Bone scintigraphy
0.96
0.3966–2.3427
0.94
18FDG-PET
0.56
0.1128–2.8277
0.49