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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

The Role of Imaging Techniques to Define a Peri-Prosthetic Hip and Knee Joint Infection: Multidisciplinary Consensus Statements.

Carlo Luca Romanò, Nicola Petrosillo, Giuseppe Argento, Luca Maria Sconfienza, Giorgio Treglia, Abass Alavi, Andor W J M Glaudemans, Olivier Gheysens, Alex Maes, Chiara Lauri and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 10 institutions in 5 countries.

Carlo Luca RomanòGruppo di Studio SIOT Infezioni-Clinica San Gaudenzio-Novara-Gruppo Policlinico di Monza, University of Milan, 20100 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6726-0593
Nicola PetrosilloClinical and Research Department for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Infective Diseases "L. Spallanzani", 00144 Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe ArgentoRadiology Unit, AOU Sant'Andrea, 00189 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1643-0745
Luca Maria SconfienzaIRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, 20161 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0759-8431
Giorgio TregliaNuclear Medicine and PET/CT Center, Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale Via Lugano 4F, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Abass AlaviDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1904, USA.
Andor W J M GlaudemansDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8081-0641
Olivier GheysensDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
Alex MaesDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk Belgium and Department of Imaging and Pathology @ KULAK, KU Leuven campus Kulak, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium.
Chiara LauriNuclear Medicine Unit Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0314-5059
Christopher J PalestroDepartment of Radiology Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA.
Alberto SignoreNuclear Medicine Unit Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8923-648X
Sapienza University of Rome · ITUniversity of Milan · ITAZ Groeninge · BEAzienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea · ITCliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc · BEDonald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell · USEnte Ospedaliero Cantonale · CHHospital of the University of Pennsylvania · USIstituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani · ITUniversity Medical Center Groningen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diagnosing a peri-prosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains challenging despite the availability of a variety of clinical signs, serum and synovial markers, imaging techniques, microbiological and histological findings. Moreover, the one and only true definition of PJI does not exist, which is reflected by the existence of at least six different definitions by independent societies. These definitions are composed of major and minor criteria for defining a PJI, but most of them do not include imaging techniques. This paper highlights the pros and cons of available imaging techniques-

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nuclear imagingPET/CTprosthetic joint infectionradiologySPECT/CT

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PMID32781651
PMCPMC7466174
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