Potential usefulness of (68)Ga-citrate PET/CT in detecting infected lower limb prostheses

BACKGROUND: Prosthetic joint infections may lead to failures of total joint arthroplasty. Radionuclide imaging can play a diagnostic role in identifying such infections, which require two-stage exchange arthroplasty (instead of simple revision surgery performed in non-infected cases). Although (18)F...

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Autores principales: Tseng, Jing-Ren, Chang, Yu-Han, Yang, Lan-Yan, Wu, Chen-Te, Chen, Szu-Yuan, Wan, Chih-Hsing, Hsiao, Ing-Tsung, Yen, Tzu-Chen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30607646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13550-018-0468-3

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