SPECT/CT in Postoperative Foot and Ankle Pain

Postoperative pain is a clinically relevant issue in orthopedic patients, affecting more than 40% 1 year after foot and ankle surgery. Because of the very complex anatomy with many different joints and several motion axes, clinical examination and conventional imaging are sometimes not sufficient to identify a local pain generator. Local uptake of bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals is known to correlate accurately with sites of pain generating foci and, thus, bone scintigraphy has been an established method to evaluate these respective patients for many years.

Source: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine - April 18, 2018 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Willm Uwe Kampen, Florian Westphal, Tim Van den Wyngaert, Klaus Strobel, Torsten Kuwert, Wouter Van der Bruggen, Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Jan-Hauke Jens, Fr édéric Paycha Source Type: research