Scintigraphic Detection of Prosthetic Joint and Soft Tissue Sepsis Secondary to Tuberculosis
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Vol. 9 (11) , 638-639
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003072-198411000-00008
Abstract
In a 40-year-old Hispanic woman with pain and swelling in the left knee with a prosthesis, the combination of Ga-67 citrate and Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate (MDP) scans was used to indicate that there was a septic prosthetic joint. At surgery, the joint was infected and a foreign body was found. Cultures positive for tuberculosis were found also. The presence of an incongruent Ga-67 and Tc-99m (MDP) scan pattern suggests infection of the prosthetic joint, as in the following case.Keywords
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