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White blood cell scintigraphy with monoclonal antibodies in the study of the infected endoprosthesis

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Abstract

Forty-three patients with suspected infection of a hip or a knee prosthesis were studied with white blood cell scintigraphy (WBC), using technetium-99m (n = 37) or iodine-123 (n = 6) labelled monoclonal mouse antibody (MoAb). Previously, all patients had undergone skeletal scintigraphy, which was performed as a three-phase study in 33 cases. The final diagnosis was established by open surgery, histology and culture in 37 cases, by puncture and culture in 3 cases, and by clinical follow-up of at least 6 months in 3 cases. Eighteen prostheses were infected, 25 uninfected. The delayed phase of skeletal scintigraphy had a sensitivity of 92%, a specificity of 24% and an accuracy of 48% in the detection of infection. The perfusion and blood pool activity of the three-phase bone scan had a sensitivity of 67%, a specificity of 71% and an accuracy of 70%. The diagnostic value of WBC was sensitivity 89%, specificity 84% and accuracy 86%. WBC with 99m-Tc-MoAb is easy to perform and always available. Its diagnostic accuracy is similar to conventional WBC scintigraphy with either indium-111 or technetium-99m.

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  1. Kliniken und Polikliniken für Nuklearmedizin, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Albert-SchweitzerStra\e 33, W-4400, Münster, Federal Republic of Germany

    Joachim Sciuk, Cornelia Puskás & Otmar Schober

  2. Kliniken und Polikliniken für allgemeine Orthopädie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Albert-SchweitzerStra\e 33, W-4400, Münster, Federal Republic of Germany

    Bernhard Greitemann

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Sciuk, J., Puskás, C., Greitemann, B. et al. White blood cell scintigraphy with monoclonal antibodies in the study of the infected endoprosthesis. Eur J Nucl Med 19, 497–502 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00185855

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