Diagnostic value of bone scintigraphy in the complications of total replacement of the hip.
Scintigraphy with bone-specific 99m-technetium-Sn-ethylenediphosphonate (phosphon) was performed in 27 patients having undergone total hip replacement before and, in case of complaints, also after operation. On suspicion of infection a study with 67 gallium citrate was also made. Completion of clinical, roentgenological and laboratory findings with an isotope study may help in deciding whether complaints are only due to the loosening of the prosthesis or to infection.
D000368:Aged; D012968:Etidronic Acid; D005260:Female; D005271:Femur Head Necrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013667:Technetium
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; C036811:technetium Tc 99m (Sn) etidronate; D013667:Technetium; D012968:Etidronic Acid