title: [Nuclear medicine techniques in the diagnosis of orthopaedic diseases].
abstract: Nuclear medicine techniques show metabolic processes, allowing the diagnoses of many bone and joint disorders. For most orthopaedic indications three-phase bone scintigraphy is used, showing inflammatory bone and joint diseases, traumatic and post-operative disorders as well as necrotic or malignant changes. In addition to bone scintigraphy, there are radiopharmaceuticals to depict inflammatory processes. Finally, positron emission tomography is a modern imaging technique used mainly for tumor diagnostics, but also for detection of inflammation.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Klinikum, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt/M., Germany. Michaela.Welsch@kgu.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Welsch
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Welsch
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grünwald
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods*