title: Osteomyelitis of the head and neck: sequential radionuclide scanning in diagnosis and therapy.
abstract: Sequential technetium and gallium scans of the head and neck were used to confirm the diagnosis of osteomyelitis and as an important therapeutic aid to delineate the transformation of active osteomyelitis to inactive osteomyelitis in 11 cases involving sites in the head and neck. Illustrative cases are presented of frontal sinus and cervical spine osteomyelitis and laryngeal osteochondritis.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004164:Diphosphonates; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D017556:Technetium Compounds; D013957:Thyroid Cartilage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
chemical_list: D004164:Diphosphonates; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D017556:Technetium Compounds; D013667:Technetium; C029045:technetium Tc 99m diphosphonate