SCINTISCANNING IN ANKYLOSING-SPONDYLITIS - CLINICAL, RADIOLOGICAL AND QUANTITATIVE RADIOISOTOPIC STUDY

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 6  (4) , 426-431
Abstract
Patients [26] with ankylosing spondylitis and 10 control subjects had quantitative dorso-lumbar and sacroiliac scintigraphy performed using 99mtechnetium methylene diphosphonate. No difference was found in the mean uptakes of radionucleide at each vertebral level or in the sacroiliac joints between the diseased patients and controls. No correlation was found between radionucleide uptake and radiological score, pain and tenderness assessments. The large variation in quantitative measurements resulted in a large overlap between control and diseased patients, and it is unlikely that scintigraphy will be of diagnostic value without improved methodology.