Evaluation of dynamic [18F]-FDG-PET imaging for the detection of acute post-surgical bone infection.

Evaluation of dynamic [18F]-FDG-PET imaging for the detection of acute post-surgical bone infection.

Diagnosing bone infection in its acute early stage is of utmost clinical importance as the failure to do so results in a therapeutically recalcitrant chronic infection that can only be resolved with extensive surgical intervention, the end result often being a structurally unstable defect requiring...

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Main Authors: Tracy L Y Brown, Horace J Spencer, Karen E Beenken, Terri L Alpe, Twyla B Bartel, William Bellamy, J Michael Gruenwald, Robert A Skinner, Sandra G McLaren, Mark S Smeltzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3408436?pdf=render

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