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What are the risks involved with this procedure?

Benefits:

- The information provided by nuclear medicine examinations is unique and often unattainable using other imaging procedures.
- For many diseases, nuclear medicine scans yield the most useful information needed to make a diagnosis or to determine appropriate treatment, if any.
- Nuclear medicine is much less traumatic than exploratory surgery.

Risks:

- Because the doses of radiotracer administered are small, diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures result in minimal radiation exposure. Thus, the radiation risk is very low compared with the potential benefits.
- Nuclear medicine has been used for more than five decades, and there are no known long-term adverse effects from such low-dose exposure.
- Allergic reactions to radiopharmaceuticals may occur but are extremely rare.
- Injection of the radiotracer may cause slight pain and redness which should rapidly resolve.
- Women should always inform their physician or radiology technologist if there is any possibility that they are pregnant or if they are breastfeeding their baby.