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Fig. 4 | Patient Safety in Surgery

Fig. 4

From: Diagnostic work-up strategy for periprosthetic joint infections after total hip and knee arthroplasty: a 12-year experience on 320 consecutive cases

Fig. 4

PET/CT images. Representative [18 F] FDG PET/CT images of a patient with infection of the left total hip arthroplasty in coronal (a) and transversal (b) orientation (c) shows a 3D projection (maximum intensity projection) of the [18 F] FDG PET data. The images demonstrate a streaky intensive hypermetabolism in the soft parts surrounding the total hip arthroplasty (thin arrows) and focal hypermetabolisms in reactive inguinal lymph nodes (bold arrows)

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Patient Safety in Surgery

ISSN: 1754-9493