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Elbow Epicondylitis

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Epicondylitis is an inflammation of the elbow tendons. It can be classified as lateral or medial, with the former occurring more frequently. Famously termed as tennis or golfer’s elbow, depending on its location, this condition is characterized by inflammatory symptoms like pain, tenderness, and swelling in the affected elbow. This chapter describes the imaging findings of elbow epicondylitis and illustrates its appearance on bone SPECT/CT. While ultrasound and MRI remain the preferred modalities for diagnosis, due to the soft tissue involvement, bone SPECT/CT aids in diagnosis and assessing the severity of inflammation in patients with nonspecific presentation.

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

    Kanhaiyalal Agrawal & Girish Kumar Parida

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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. (2023). Elbow Epicondylitis. 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_254

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