Should the nuclear medicine community continue to underestimate the potential of 18F-FDG-PET/CT with present generation scanners for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection?

Nucl Med Commun. 2015 Jul;36(7):756-7. doi: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000318.

Authors

Thomas C Kwee¹, Sandip Basu, Abass Alavi

Affiliation

¹ aDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands bRadiation Medicine Center (Bhabha Atomic Research Center), Tata Memorial Center Annexe, Bombay, India cDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 26020607
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000318

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / adverse effects*
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / adverse effects*
Diagnostic Imaging / methods*
Humans
Nuclear Medicine / methods*
Prosthesis-Related Infections / diagnosis*