title: Combined single-photon emission computerized tomography and conventional computerized tomography (SPECT/CT): clinical value for the knee surgeons?
abstract: Single-photon emission computerized tomography in combination with conventional computer tomography (SPECT/CT) is an emerging technology that may hold great clinical value to the orthopaedic knee surgeon. Post-operative knee pain is a familiar condition seen in most orthopaedic clinics. Here, we present the value of SPECT/CT in three such cases of pain after surgical treatment of knee osteoarthritis (high tibial osteotomy, medial unicompartmental arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty). In these patients with post-operative knee pain, SPECT/CT has proved to be beneficial in establishing the diagnosis and providing guidance for further treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, 4101 Bruderholz, Switzerland. michael.hirschmann@ksbh.ch
authors.forename: Michael T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Hirschmann
authors.forename: Farhad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Iranpour
authors.forename: Kinner
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Davda
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rasch
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hügli
authors.forename: Niklaus F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Friederich
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon