Abstract
All tissues with a different density than bone are defined as soft tissues: skin, muscles, abdominal organs, thoracic organs, etc. Infection of soft tissues may be acute or chronic, and may occur through hematogenous spreading of pathogenic microorganisms or local contamination, including surgical infection or diffusion from adjacent areas. Soft tissue infections are classified according to the site, clinical and pathogen features. They frequently present with nonspecific signs and symptoms, so that their diagnosis and extent are difficult to define; confirmation of the disease may therefore require microorganism isolation, with multiple sampling or histology of biopsies, in addition to the commonly used imaging techniques.
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D’Errico, G. (2013). Nuclear Medicine Imaging of Soft Tissue Infections. In: Radionuclide Imaging of Infection and Inflammation. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2763-3_2
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