Blood-Pool SPECT/CT in Chronic Ankle Tendinopathy

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Oct;45(10):e457-e458. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003119.

Abstract

We report 2 cases where blood-pool SPECT/CT had a high added value compared with standard 3-phase bone scintigraphy with only delayed SPECT/CT for the etiological diagnosis of painful ankles. Two men, aged 48 and 62 years, were referred for suspicions of medial and lateral malleoli stress fractures, respectively. Although standard planar blood-pool imaging and delayed SPECT/CT were inconclusive, blood-pool SPECT/CT showed markedly increased uptake along posterior tibial tendon and peroneal tendon, respectively, leading to diagnose tendonitises. These cases illustrate that blood-pool SPECT/CT can extend the diagnostic yield of bone scintigraphy to extraosseous origin, particularly in chronic lower extremities pain.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Ankle / diagnostic imaging*
  • Chronic Disease
  • Gated Blood-Pool Imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pain / complications
  • Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Tendinopathy / diagnostic imaging*