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Inguinal Infection Mimicking Infected Hip Prosthesis: A Case Report
Correspondence to: Dr. Ravi Kashyap, Head, Department of Nuclear Medicine, INMAS, Brig. S. K. Mazumdar Road, Timarpur, Delhi-110054. Ph: 011 - 23905168, 23914377 Email: rkashyap100@gmail.com
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This article was originally published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow and was migrated to Scientific Scholar after the change of Publisher.
Abstract
Planar imaging is usually undertaken to sample whole body or specific area of interest to ascertain radiotracer accumulation. Presence of any other pathology near the area of interest may produce a wrong interpretation in a planar image. To overcome this problem, tomographic imaging using SPECT is useful. We present a case where SPECT imaging helped in localizing the site of infection in an 80-year male patient with right hip prosthesis undergoing 99mTc-Ciprofloxacin (Diagnobact) imaging for ruling out infected prosthesis.
