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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021

Bone and Joint Infections: The Role of Imaging in Tailoring Diagnosis to Improve Patients' Care.

Andrea Sambri, Paolo Spinnato, Sara Tedeschi, Eleonora Zamparini, Michele Fiore, Riccardo Zucchini, Claudio Giannini, Emilia Caldari, Amandine Crombé, Pierluigi Viale and 1 more

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Andrea SambriOrthopedics Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2099-8547
Paolo SpinnatoRadiology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6060-3215
Sara TedeschiDIMEC, University of Bologna, 40133 Bologna, Italy.
Eleonora ZampariniInfectious Disease Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Michele FioreDIMEC, University of Bologna, 40133 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0546-670X
Riccardo ZucchiniDIMEC, University of Bologna, 40133 Bologna, Italy.
Claudio GianniniDIMEC, University of Bologna, 40133 Bologna, Italy.
Emilia CaldariOrthopedics Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Amandine CrombéDepartment of Oncologic Imaging, Institut Bergonié, Comprehensive Cancer Center of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
Pierluigi VialeDIMEC, University of Bologna, 40133 Bologna, Italy.
Massimiliano De PaolisOrthopedics Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6182-9870

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging is needed for the diagnosis of bone and joint infections, determining the severity and extent of disease, planning biopsy, and monitoring the response to treatment. Some radiological features are pathognomonic of bone and joint infections for each modality used. However, imaging diagnosis of these infections is challenging because of several overlaps with non-infectious etiologies. Interventional radiology is generally needed to verify the diagnosis and to identify the microorganism involved in the infectious process through imaging-guided biopsy. This narrative review aims to summarize the radiological features of the commonest orthopedic infections, the indications and the limits of different modalities in the diagnostic strategy as well as to outline recent findings that may facilitate diagnosis.

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bone infectionsdiagnosisimagingprosthesis infections

Identifiers

PMID34945789
PMCPMC8709091

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