A prospective study comparing whole-body FDG PET/CT to combined planar bone scan with 67Ga SPECT/ct in the diagnosis of spondylodiskitis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 827-832

  Fuster, David ^a   Solà, Oriol ^a   Soriano, Alex ^a   Monegal, Anna ^a   Setoain, Xavier ^a   Tomás, Xavier ^a   Garcia, Sebastià ^a   Mensa, Josep ^a   Rubello, Domenico ^b   Pons, Francesca ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

67Ga scintigraphy; diagnosis; infection diseases; PET CT; spondylodiskitis

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPONDYLITIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WHOLE BODY PET;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; DISCITIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865590290     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318262ae6c     Document Type: Article

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