Detection of Musculoskeletal Infection with 18F-FDG PET: Review of the Current Literature

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TABLE 1

Articles Meeting Inclusion Criteria

Study focus	Infections evaluated	n	TP/TN/FP/FN
Chronic musculoskeletal infection (34)	Spondylodiscitis, osteomyelitis, arthrosis deformans, soft-tissue infection, superficial infection, bursitis, aseptic loosening	60	26/30/4/0
Chronic osteomyelitis (28)	Osteomyeltitis, soft-tissue infection	50	27/22/0/1
Chronic osteomyelitis (33)	Osteomyelitis, synovitis, soft-tissue infection	31	17/12/1/1
Infectious bone diseases (29)	Acute and chronic osteomyelitis, spondylitis	15	15/0/0/0
Total knee arthroplasty (36)	Knee prosthetic infection, aseptic loosening	21	6/11/4/0
Lower limb prostheses (27)	Hip and knee prosthetic infection	74	19/43/10/2
Chronic osteomyelitis (32)	Chronic osteomyelitis	22	6/14/2/0

TP = true-positive; TN = true-negative; FP = false-positive; FN = false-negative.

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