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Bone SPECT/CT in Shoulder: Tendinitis Calcarean Subscapularis or Calcific Tendinitis of Subscapularis

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Calcific tendinitis is referred as a self-limiting pathology of muscle tendons. Usually patients present with pain in shoulder with or without restriction of movements. In this chapter, we describe role of imaging, particularly bone SPECT/CT in the management of calcific tendinitis of subscapularis.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

    Kanhaiyalal Agrawal & Girish Kumar Parida

  2. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

    Kanhaiyalal Agrawal MD

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Agrawal, K., Parida, G.K., Strobel, K. (2023). Bone SPECT/CT in Shoulder: Tendinitis Calcarean Subscapularis or Calcific Tendinitis of Subscapularis. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_247

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