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Inguinal infection mimicking infected hip prosthesis: A case report
Abhinav Jaimini, Amit Bhandari, Madhavi Tripathi, Krishan Sawroop, Ravi Kashyap
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Ravi Kashyap
Department of Nuclear Medicine, INMAS, Brig. S. K. Mazumdar Road, Timarpur, Delhi-110054
India
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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.
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