title: Nuclear medicine imaging in podiatric disorders.
abstract: Radionuclide scanning is a valuable diagnostic tool based on metabolic and anatomic imaging. When used in the appropriate clinical setting, radionuclide imaging is a sensitive, minimally invasive imaging modality that detects and differentiates skeletal from nonskeletal pathology in the painful foot. Isotopic scanning is of particular value in the evaluation of the diabetic foot and in the subsequent follow-up of response to therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Karl
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hammes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D007205:Indium Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium
chemical_list: D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D007205:Indium Radioisotopes; D013667:Technetium