Nearly 700,000 hip and knee arthroplasties are performed annually in the United States.
Although the results in most cases are excellent, implants do fail. Complications like …

Prosthetic joint replacement surgery is performed with increasing frequency. Overall the
incidence of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) and subsequently prosthesis revision failure is …

One hundred five consecutive painful knee arthroplasties were evaluated by a single
surgeon for the presence of infection using a uniform protocol that included an erythrocyte …

The role of gallium imaging in infection has changed considerably during the past several
years. Once the mainstay of radinuclide, imaging of infection, it has been supplanted to a …

In otherwise normal bone, Three Phase Bone Scintigraphy is sensitive and specific for
osteomyelitis. In patients with underlying osseous abnormalities the specificity of the study is …

Soon after the introduction of the modern prosthetic joint, it was recognized that radionuclide
imaging provides useful information about these devices. The bone scan was used …

Leukocyte scintigraphy was performed 24 hr after injection of-â€-18.5 MBq (500 MCi) of
autobogous mixed leukocytes labeled with †††In-oxine, according to the method of …

Background: Various imaging techniques are used for excluding or confirming periprosthetic
hip infection, but there is no consensus regarding the most accurate technique. The …

We assessed the efficacy of intraoperative frozen-section histology in detecting infection in
failed arthroplasties in 106 hips and knees. We found inflammatory changes consistent with …

Forty-one possible cases of infected total knee prostheses studied with indium-111-labeled
leukocyte scintigraphy were retrospectively reviewed. Twenty-four of the prostheses were …