Kaushik Prateek, Maurya Satya Dev, Damle Nishikant, Ballal Sanjana, Kumar Venkatesan Sampath, Bal Chandrasekhar, Tripathi Madhavi
Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 Jun;56(3):171-172. doi: 10.1007/s13139-022-00747-5. Epub 2022 Apr 11.
Pain after prosthesis implant is a common clinical problem which requires distinction of septic from aseptic causes since the treatment differs. Non-invasive imaging methods play an important role in the diagnosis. Radiolabelled ubiquicidin can be used for imaging infection by binding directly to bacterial cell wall. We describe a case of a 24-year-old man with right lower limb megaprosthesis which did not show any loosening on computed tomography (CT) but was accurately diagnosed as infected prosthesis with Ga-NOTA-ubiquicidin(29-41) acetate scan.
假体植入后的疼痛是一个常见的临床问题,由于治疗方法不同,需要区分感染性和非感染性原因。非侵入性成像方法在诊断中起着重要作用。放射性标记的泛癸利定可通过直接结合细菌细胞壁用于感染成像。我们描述了一例24岁男性患者,其右下肢使用了大型假体,计算机断层扫描(CT)未显示任何松动,但通过醋酸镓-NOTA-泛癸利定(29-41)扫描准确诊断为假体感染。