In the fifth edition of this highly successful book, the author once again aims to equip the reader with up-to-date information that will facilitate accurate diagnosis of bone and joint diseases by means of combined use of scintigraphy and radiology. Two entirely new chapters have been added, one on the use of 18F-NaF PET/CT and the other on gamma correction scan diagnosis of bone trabecular microfracture and microcontusion as well as bone edema and hemorrhage. Further topics covered for the first time include enthesopathies, myositis, soft tissue diseases, cryptic bones, and differential diagnosis. Individual chapters have been updated and rearranged to reflect the latest advances in imaging diagnosis. As before, a vast number of state of the art gamma correction pinhole bone scans and corroborative conventional radiographs and CT, MRI, and/or ultrasound images are presented side by side. In this new edition, extension of the application of gamma correction to other imaging methods such as MRI and CT and the solution of the halation problem are necessarily addressed. This fifth edition of Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases will be essential reading for practitioners and researchers in nuclear medicine, radiology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, anatomy, and imaging sciences at large.

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Contents

۱. Introduction and Fundamentals of Pinhole Scintigraphy
۲. Dual-Head Pinhole Scanr Pinhole SPECTr and Gamma Correction Scan
۳. Clinical Applications
۴. Normal Pinhole Scintigraphic Anatomy of Bone and Joint
۵. Normal Variants and Artifacts
۶. Infective and Inflammatory Diseases of Bone
۷. Noninfective Osteitides
۸. Diseases of Joints and Soft-Tissue Infections
۹. Degenerative Joint Diseases
۱۰. Rheumatoid Arthritis
۱۱. Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies
۱۲. Other Rheumatic Osteoarthropathies and Soft-Tissue Rheumatism Syndromes
۱۳. Osteochondroses and Related Diseases
۱۴. Vascular Bone Disorders
۱۵. Metabolic Bone Diseases and Drug-Induced Osteoporosis
۱۶. Traumatic, Surgical,. Sports, and Thermal and Cold Injuries of the Skeleton
۱۷. Malignant Tumors of Bone
۱۸. Benign Tumors and Tumorous Conditions of the Bone
۱۹. Soft-Tissue Tumors and Tumorlike Conditions
۲۰. Otorhinological Disorders
۲۱. ۱۸F-FDG PET/CT in Bone and Joint Diseases
۲۲. ۱۸F-NaF PET/CT in Bone and Joint Diseases
۲۳. A Genetic Consideration of Skeletal Disorders
۲۴. General Gamma Correction Pinhole Bone Scan Diagnosis
۲۵. Gamma Correction 99mTc-HDP Pinhole Scan Diagnosis of Trabecular Microfracture and Contusion
۲۶. Miscellanea of Gamma Correction Pinhole Scan