Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases

Introduction and fundamentals of pinhole scintigraphy.- Dual-head planar pinhole scintigraphy and pinhole SPECT of bone.- Clinical applications.- Normal pinhole scintigraphic anatomy of bone and joint.- Normal variants and artifacts.- Infective and inflammatory diseases of 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 bone.- Benign tumors and tumorous conditions of bone.- Soft-tissue tumors and tumor-like conditions.- Otorhinological disorders.- PET-CT in bone and joint diseases.- A genetic consideration of skeletal disorders. - Appendix: Basic physics of pinhole scintigraphy.