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Combined single-photon emission computerized tomography and conventional computerized tomography (SPECT/CT): clinical value for the knee surgeons?

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Single-photon emission computerized tomography in combination with conventional computer tomography (SPECT/CT) is an emerging technology that may hold great clinical value to the orthopaedic knee surgeon. Post-operative knee pain is a familiar condition seen in most orthopaedic clinics. Here, we present the value of SPECT/CT in three such cases of pain after surgical treatment of knee osteoarthritis (high tibial osteotomy, medial unicompartmental arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty). In these patients with post-operative knee pain, SPECT/CT has proved to be beneficial in establishing the diagnosis and providing guidance for further treatment.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, 4101, Bruderholz, Switzerland

    Michael T. Hirschmann & Niklaus F. Friederich

  2. Musculoskeletal Surgery Department, Imperial College, London, UK

    Michael T. Hirschmann, Farhad Iranpour & Kinner Davda

  3. Institute for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, 4101, Bruderholz, Switzerland

    Helmut Rasch & Rolf Hügli

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Hirschmann, M.T., Iranpour, F., Davda, K. et al. Combined single-photon emission computerized tomography and conventional computerized tomography (SPECT/CT): clinical value for the knee surgeons?. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 18, 341–345 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-009-0879-9

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