Evaluation of healed status in tuberculosis of spine by fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography and contrast magnetic resonance imaging

Conclusions: FDG-PET/CT is more useful to demonstrate the healed status than MRI and is the only imaging to demonstrate healed status when MRI could not be performed due to metallic implants. All patients achieved healed status at variable length of ATT intake; hence TB spine should be treated by ATT till healed status (end-point of treatment) is demonstrated by FDG-PET/CT (absence of FDG uptake) or contrast MRI.

Source: Indian Journal of Orthopaedics - February 6, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Samarth Mittal Anil K Jain KL Chakraborti Aditya Nath Aggarwal Lalendra Upreti Himanshu Bhayana Source Type: research