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Knee Prostheses

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Knee surgeries can be classified as joint-preserving surgeries such as osteotomy, ligament reconstruction, meniscus repair, and cartilage repair, and joint-replacing arthroplasties such as unicondylar knee arthroplasty (KA), patellofemoral joint arthroplasty, and total knee arthroplasty. While the incidence of knee surgeries has been increasing worldwide, substantial portion of patients experience failure. In Korea, over 70,000 cases of primary knee arthroplasties were done in 2019, with over 5000 cases of revision arthroplasties. The complicated knee anatomy and various etiologies of arthroplasty failure interfere with the accurate assessment of post-operative complications.

There are many knee prosthesis-related complications such as periprosthetic infection, aseptic loosening, polyethylene wear, osteolysis, metallosis, instability, and periprosthetic fracture. Distinguishing the periprosthetic uptake patterns on bone scans aids the differential diagnosis.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

    Yoo Sung Song

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dongnam Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Busan, Korea (Republic of)

    Seoung-Oh Yang

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    So Won Oh

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Yun Young Choi

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jin-Sook Ryu

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Song, Y.S. (2022). Knee Prostheses. In: Yang, SO., Oh, S.W., Choi, Y.Y., Ryu, JS. (eds) Atlas of Nuclear Medicine in Musculoskeletal System. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2677-8_12

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