ReviewNuclear medicine and molecular imaging2020
Bone SPECT/CT of the Foot and Ankle: Potential Clinical Application for Chronic Foot Pain.
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- Utility of Quantitative and Semi-Quantitative SPECT/CT Metrics in Differentiating Mueller-Weiss Syndrome.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The differential diagnostic potential of SPECT/CT to detect osteomyelitis in foot or ankle: a systematic review.EFORT open reviews · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings and Potential Anatomic Risk Factors for Anterolateral Ankle Impingement in Children and Adolescents Suffering from Non-Overload Atraumatic Ankle Pain.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Imaging modalities for non-acute pathologies of the foot and ankle.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2024Article
- KSNM 60 in General Nuclear Medicine: the Old Dream Comes True.Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2022Review
- Clinical utility of quantitative analysis of bone scintigraphy in detecting clinically active joint and high disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.BMC medical imaging · 2021Article
- The Added Value of Bloodpool SPECT/CT in Painful Non-Operated Foot and Ankle Undiagnosed With Standard Three-Phase Bone Scintigraphy.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Diseases of the foot and ankle are common but relatively difficult to diagnose because of the complexity of the anatomy and the frequent occurrence of multiple diseases at the same time. For these reasons, management of chronic foot pain is often clinically challenging. MRI is the imaging modality of choice in many types of diseases causing chronic foot pain, due to high resolution and excellent soft tissue contrast. However, in the postoperative state, the use of MRI can be limited by artifact from metallic devices, and it may be difficult to confirm whether the pathology detected on the MRI is the actual cause of the pain. As bone scintigraphy provides metabolic information, it can help to find the origin of pain, and SPECT/CT can further improve the specificity by adding anatomical information. In daily clinical practice for management of foot and ankle pathologies, the use of bone SPECT/CT is gradually increasing. However, there has been limited evidence of usefulness of SPECT/CT in evaluating chronic foot pain. In this review article, the potential application of bone SPECT/CT for chronic foot pain is illustrated, and the role of SPECT/CT in the management of the foot and ankle diseases in clinical practice is described.
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