Comparison of MRI, [18F]FDG PET/CT, and 99mTc-UBI 29-41 scintigraphy for postoperative spondylodiscitis-a prospective multicenter study.

Diana PaezMike M SathekgeHassan DouisFrancesco GiammarileShazia FatimaAnil DhalSunil K PuriPaola A ErbaElena LazzeriRodolfo FerrandoPaulo Almeida FilhoVincent Peter MagbooOlga MorozovaRodolfo NúñezOlivier PelletGiuliano Mariani

Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2020)

[18F]FDG PET/CT and MRI both possess equally satisfactory diagnostic performance in patients with suspected postoperative spine infection, the best diagnostic performance being obtained by combining MRI with [18F]FDG PET/CT. The diagnostic performance of SPECT/CT with 99mTc-UBI 29-41 was suboptimal in the postoperative clinical setting explored with the present study.

Keyphrases

contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance imaging
patients undergoing
diffusion weighted imaging
computed tomography
magnetic resonance
pet ct
positron emission tomography