Increased and normalized uptake of (18)F-FDG in a case of bone periprosthetic infection treated by antibiotics.
CONCLUSION: In the case we report, since we found no otnt focal areas in the lumbar spine where due to age-related bone deformities including some Schmorl's nodes. The inflammation in the bone prosthesis and the subcutaneous wound responded almost totally to the antibiotic treatment we applied.
PMID: 28697197 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: Hell J Nucl Med Source Type: research
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