TABLE 2

Clinical and PET/CT Results

Patient no.	Lesion site	Visual score	Final diagnosis	Diagnostic method
1	1. Colon diverticula	2–3	1. Diverticulitis	CT
	2. L knee joint	3	2. Septic arthritis	Culture (1)
2	R lung	1	Pneumonia	Bronchioalveolar liquid culture (2)
3	Pelvic bone	0	No OM	MRI
4	1. Deep foot ulcer	3	1. Infected ulcer	Swab culture (3)
	2. Underlying bone	0	2. No underlying OM	Radiography at 3-mo FU
5	R and L lung	3	Opportunistic pneumonia	CT, transthoracic aspiration and sputum cultures (4)
6	1. Pancreatic pseudocysts	3	Infected pancreatic pseudocysts	Culture (5)
	2. Sigmoid diverticulum	3	Sigmoid diverticulitis	CT
7	Aortic valve	2	Endocarditis	Clinical criteria, with positive blood cultures (6)
8	Soft tissues R thigh	1	Myositis, no infection	Muscle biopsy histology
9	Skull bone at craniotomy site	0	No OM	Clinical evolution, 5-mo FU
10	1. Olecranon bursa	3	1. Olecranon bursitis with erysipelas	Clinical + US
	2. Underlying joint	0	2. No septic arthritis	Clinical + US, 2-mo FU
11	Pancreatic pseudocysts	3	Infected pancreatic pseudocysts	Culture (7)
12	1. Ulcer L foot stump	2	1. Infected ulcer	Deep wound swab culture (8)
	2. Underlying bone	0	2. No OM	MRI
	3. R maxillary sinus	3	3. R maxillary sinusitis	CT
	4. R ethmoid sinus	3	4. R ethmoidal sinusitis	CT
13	1. Olecranon bursa	2	1. Olecranon bursitis	Culture (9)
	2. Underlying bone	0	2. No OM	Radiography, CT, 6-mo FU
14	1. Mesentery	3	1 & 2. Giant cell arteritis	Clinical, 6-mo FU
	2. Effusion L pleura	3
15	1. Large ulcer R forefoot	3	1 & 2. Infected ulcer with OM of 5 foot bones	Deep wound swab culture + resected forefoot histology (10)
	2. Underlying bones	2–3
16	Pancreatic pseudocyst	0	Acute pancreatitis, no secondary infection	CT, 2-mo FU
17	Bronchiectasis L lung	3	Infected bronchiectasis	Bronchoalveolar liquid culture (11) and cytology
18	1. R knee joint	1	1 & 2. Whipple's disease	Anterior eye chamber liquid and blood PCR
	2. Mesenteric lymph node	0
19	1. Peritoneum	1	1 & 2. Diverticulitis with peritonitis	Resected sigmoid histology and ascites culture (12)
	2. Sigmoid diverticulum	0
	3. L hip joint	0	3. Coxarthrosis	MRI
20	L femoral head	0	Femoral head necrosis	Resected femoral head histology
21	1. Ulcers R foot	3	1 & 2. Infected ulcers with OM of 4 foot bones	Deep wound swab cultures (13) + resected forefoot histology
	2. Underlying bones R foot	3
	3. Ulcers L foot	3	3 & 4. Infected ulcers with OM of 1 foot bone	Bone scan + leukocyte scan and deep wound swab cultures (13)
	4. Underlying bones L foot	3

FU = follow-up; L = left; R = right; US = ultrasound; PCR = polymerase chain reaction.
(1) Staphylococcus aureus; (2) Streptococcus pneumoniae; (3) Staphylococcus aureus; (4) Nocardia abscessus, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Rhizomucor pulsillus; (5) Polymicrobial flora with predominance of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus species; (6) Streptococcus bovis; (7) Enterobacter cloacae; (8) Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae; (9) Staphylococcus aureus; (10) Streptococcus constellatus, Streptococcus intermedius, and Peptostreptococcus micros; (11) Pseudomonas aeruginosa; (12) Escherichia coli; (13) Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.