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Foot: Osteochondral Lesions

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Osteochondral lesions in the foot mostly affect the talus and involve talar cartilage due to bone injury or degeneration. Compaction, shearing, or avulsion trauma usually causes the lesions, with 6% of ankle sprains leading to osteochondral lesions. Treatment includes a combination of conservative treatment and surgery when symptoms persist to prevent the progression of osteoarthritis. This chapter describes and illustrates the clinical characteristics, classification, and imaging findings of osteochondral lesions on X-ray, bone SPECT/CT, and MRI using case material.

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

    Klaus Strobel

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

    Ujwal Bhure

  3. Division of Nuclear Medicine, MRI, Zurich, Switzerland

    Thomas F. Hany

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  5. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA – IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  6. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, India

    Ujwal Bhure

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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, Maria Middelares Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

    Jeroen Mertens

  2. University College Hospital, London, UK

    Simon Wan

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Strobel, K., Bhure, U., Hany, T.F., Van den Wyngaert, T. (2023). Foot: Osteochondral Lesions. 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_44

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