SPECT/CT in the Diagnosis of Skull Base Osteomyelitis

Nishikant Avinash Damle; Rakesh Kumar; Praveen Kumar; Sriram Jaganathan; Manish Patnecha; Chandrasekhar Bal; Gurupad Bandopadhyaya; Arun Malhotra

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SPECT/CT in the Diagnosis of Skull Base Osteomyelitis

Nishikant Avinash Damle, Rakesh Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Sriram Jaganathan, Manish Patnecha, Chandrasekhar Bal, Gurupad Bandopadhyaya, Arun Malhotra

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Abstract

Skull base osteomyelitis is a potentially fatal disease. We demonstrate here the utility of SPECT/CT in diagnosing this entity, which was not obvious on a planar bone scan. A ^99mTc MDP bone scan with SPECT/CT was carried out on a patient with clinically suspected skull base osteomyelitis. Findings were correlated with contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) and MRI. Planar images were equivocal, but SPECT/CT showed intense uptake in the body of sphenoid and petrous temporal bone as well as the atlas corresponding to irregular bone destruction on CT and MRI. These findings indicate that SPECT/CT may have an additional role beyond planar imaging in the detection of skull base osteomyelitis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	212-216
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Volume	45
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-011-0086-8
State	Published - Sep 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bone scan
Skull base osteomyelitis
SPECT/CT

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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