Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases

Introduction and fundamentals of pinhole scintigraphy.- Dual-head planar pinhole scan, pinhole SPECT, and gamma correction pinhole scan of the bone.- Clinical applications.- Normal pinhole scintigraphic anatomy of bones and joints.- Normal variants and artifacts.- Infective and inflammatory diseases of the bone.- Noninfective osteitides.- Diseases of joints and soft-tissue infections.- Degenerative joint diseases.- Rheumatoid arthritis.- Seronegative spondyloarthropathies.- Other rheumatic osteoarthropathies and soft-tissue rheumatism syndromes.- Osteochondroses and related diseases.- Vascular bone disorders.- Metabolic bone diseases and drug-induced osteoporosis.- Traumatic, surgical, and sports injuries of the skeleton.- Malignant tumors of the bone.- Benign tumors and tumorous conditions of the bone.- Soft-tissue tumors and tumor-like conditions.- Otorhinological disorders.- PET-CT in bone and joint diseases.- A genetic consideration of skeletal disorders.- Gamma correction pinhole bone scan diagnosis.- Appendix: Basic physics of pinhole scintigraphy.

From the reviews of the fourth edition:“This revision is well written and clearly illustrated with superb images and a convenient index. I highly recommend this book to nuclear physicians, radiologists, pathologists, orthopedic specialties, and scientists, as well as to imaging technologists and medical students.” (E. Edmund Kim, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 54 (7), July, 2013)