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Aim: Retrospective evaluation of Tc-99m ciprofloxacin (infection) scintigraphy consecutively performed in a series of patients clinically suspected for peripheral osteomyelitis (OM), spondylodiscitis (SD) and fever of unknown origin (FUO).
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LP Central Hospital Laboratory, Kemi, Finland.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 99mTc labelled ciprofloxacin imaging in detecting the presence of infection in patients with symptomatic knee prostheses. Among 16 randomly selected patients of whom seven had infection based on clinical and microbiological findings and nine did not, 99mTc-ciprofloxacin images were obtained at 1, 4 and 24h after the injection of the tracer. While there was some diffuse non-specific accumulation of 99mTc-ciprofloxacin in large synovial joints and in prosthetic knee joints, the infected knee prostheses were found to show more intensive focal uptake, which also extended outside the synovial cavity.
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