FDG PET imaging for diagnosing prosthetic joint infection: Discussing the facts, rectifying the unsupported claims and call for evidence-based and scientific approach

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 464-466

  Kwee, Thomas C ^a   Basu, Sandip ^b,c   Torigian, Drew A ^c   Zhuang, Hongming ^c   Alavi, Abass ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BONE MARROW SCINTISCANNING; BONE PROSTHESIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LETTER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 84873999845     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2319-1     Document Type: Letter

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