Abstract
Spine is one of the most important structures supporting our body and which is continuously stressed by various postures as well as gravity. These various stresses can affect the stability of spine and can cause many problems. Lower back pain is the most common disease, and its overall prevalence has been known to be over 10% of population. Although many of patients with this symptom can be successfully cared by conservative management, not small portion of the patients require surgical intervention such as internal fixation or spinal fusion. At this time, imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, and SPECT/CT have important roles to assess the exact conditions of spine before and after the surgery, predict the prognosis, and made decision for follow-up management plan. All these modalities have their own benefits and limitations as is well known, and SPECT/CT can play special role due to highly sensitive detection rate of early bone change and less metal artifacts despite the relative low special resolution. In this chapter we will review the role of SPECT/CT mainly in the evaluation of the spine after surgical intervention and add some brief discussion about other conditions such as spondylolysis and fractures.
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Jeon, T.J. (2022). Spine. In: Yang, SO., Oh, S.W., Choi, Y.Y., Ryu, JS. (eds) Atlas of Nuclear Medicine in Musculoskeletal System. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2677-8_10
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