BACKGROUND The role of conventional bone scintigraphy in diagnosing early axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is yet controversial. Single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT) plus CT is an imaging modality that adds better anatomical information to scintigraphy of the sacroiliac (SI) joint. Our aim was to investigate the usefulness of bone SPECT/CT with volume of interest (VOI) analysis in ...

Received 7/9/2003; revised 7/23/2003; accepted 8/10/2003. For correspondence or reprints contact: Yeh-You Shen, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital. 95 Wen-Chang Road, Shih Lin District, Taipei 111, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-28332211 ext. 2280, Fax: (886)2-28389489, E-mail: [email protected] A 57-year-old female underwent whole-body F-fluorodeoxyglucose posi...

OBJECTIVE We planned this study to evaluate the role of bone scintigraphy in patients with suspected carpal fracture and normal or suspicious radiographs following carpal injury. METHODS Three-phase bone scintigraphy using Tc-99m-MDP was performed on 32 patients with negative radiographs but clinically suspected fracture at two weeks after the trauma. Focally increased radiopharmaceutical upt...

UNLABELLED We compared the efficacies of (18)F-FDG PET and (99m)Tc-bone scintigraphy for the detection of bone metastases in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). METHODS We examined 47 patients (32 women, 15 men; mean age +/- SD, 57.0 +/- 10.7 y) with DTC who had undergone total thyroidectomy and were hospitalized to be given (131)I therapy. All patients underwent both whole-...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the number and distribution of fractures around the wrist found on bone scintigraphy in patients with a clinically suspected scaphoid fracture and negative initial radiographs. We retrospectively included 445 consecutive patients with a suspected scaphoid fracture who underwent routine bone scintigraphy. None of the radiographs showed evidence of a fracture...

We evaluated 100 consecutive patients with a suspected scaphoid fracture but without evidence of a fracture on plain radiographs using MRI within 24 hours of injury, and bone scintigraphy three to five days after injury. The reference standard for a true radiologically-occult scaphoid fracture was either a diagnosis of fracture on both MRI and bone scintigraphy, or, in the case of discrepancy, ...

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is an excessive or abnormal response of the sympathetic nervous system in an extremity to an injury or other condition. The authors describe a 37-year-old man who experienced constant pain and vasomotor instability in both feet after nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis secondary to smoking heroin. Three-phase bone scintigraphy was performed and revealed significantly increa...

Skeletal metastases are found at post-mortems in 25% or more of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The incidence reported during life is half of this. Conventional bone scintigraphy is widely employed in the diagnosis and follow-up of many malignant conditions and is generally accepted as the most sensitive amongst the available techniques for the detection of skeletal metastases2. Howev...

The patient with a history of bone pain and muscle weakness, was thought to have oncogenic osteomalacia as a result of biochemical investigations and directed to Nuclear Medicine Department for a whole-body bone scintigraphy and 111In-octreotide scintigraphy. There was no focal pathologic tracer uptake, but generalized marked increase in skeletal uptake on bone scintigraphy. Octreotide scintigr...

Correlation of Radiologic Tests in the Diagnosis of Brucellosis with Osteoarticular Involvement Background. The most common complication of brucellosis is musculoskeletal system involvement. Bone and joint involvement in brucellosis may present as mainly sacroiliitis and spondylitis. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation of plain X-rays, bone scintigraphy, and contrast-enhanced ma...