Heterotrophic Ossification in a Patient Suspected of Having Osteomyelitis
| Autor: | Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Fahim Ul Hassan, Sanjay Vijayanathan, Mohammed Enayat, Fathia Mohammed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment digestive system Amputation Surgical medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Tomography Emission-Computed Single-Photon Ossification business.industry Ossification Heterotopic Osteomyelitis General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery body regions surgical procedures operative Amputation Crush injury Radiology medicine.symptom Tomography X-Ray Computed business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 37:170-171 |
| ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/rlu.0b013e31823e9ac0 |
| Popis: | A 46-year-old man, with a history of bilateral amputations, presented with a long-standing chronic nonhealing wound at the left below-knee amputation, which was sustained after a crush injury. The patient was referred for a bone scan to exclude osteomyelitis of the left stump. The bone scan showed increased uptake in the left below-knee amputation stump, raising the possibility of an infection. However, SPECT/CT of this area confirmed the uptake to correspond to the heterotrophic ossification of the left below-knee stump and no evidence of osteomyelitis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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