SPECT/CT in the Diagnosis of Skull Base Osteomyelitis
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Nishikant Avinash Damle & Rakesh Kumar & Praveen Kumar & Sriram Jaganathan & Manish Patnecha & Chandrasekhar Bal & Gurupad Bandopadhyaya & Arun Malho
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Skull base osteomyelitis is a potentially fatal disease. We demonstrate here the utility of SPECT/CT in diagnosing this entity, which was not obvious on a planar bone scan. A 99mTc MDP bone scan with SPECT/CT was carried out on a patient with clinically suspected skull base osteomyelitis. Findings were correlated with contrastenhanced CT (CECT) and MRI. Planar images were equivocal, but SPECT/CT showed intense uptake in the body of sphenoid and petrous temporal bone as well as the atlas corresponding to irregular bone destruction on CT and MRI. These findings indicate that SPECT/CT may have an additional role beyond planar imaging in the detection of skull base osteomyelitis.
Nucl Med Mol Imaging DOI 10.1007/s13139-011-0086-8 Received: 21 November 2010 / Accepted: 20 April 2011
