COMBINED SCINTIGRAPHIC AND RADIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS OF BONE AND JOINT DISEASES. INCLUDING GAMMA CORRECTION INTERPRETATION. 5TH EDITION

1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Pinhole Scintigraphy
2. Dual-Head Pinhole Scan, Pinhole SPECT, and Gamma Correction Scan
3. Clinical Applications
4. Normal Pinhole Scintigraphic Anatomy of Bone and Joint
5. Normal Variants and Artifacts
6. Infective and Inflammatory Diseases of Bone
7. Noninfective Osteitides
8. Diseases of Joints and Soft-Tissue Infections
9. Degenerative Joint Diseases
10. Rheumatoid Arthritis
11. Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies
12. Other Rheumatic Osteoarthropathies and Soft-Tissue Rheumatism Syndromes
13. Osteochondroses and Related Diseases
14. Vascular Bone Disorders
15. Metabolic Bone Diseases and Drug-Induced Osteoporosis
16. Traumatic, Surgical, Sports, and Thermal and Cold Injuries of the Skeleton
17. Malignant Tumors of Bone
18. Benign Tumors and Tumorous Conditions of the Bone
19. Soft-Tissue Tumors and Tumorlike Conditions
20. Otorhinological Disorders
21. 18F-FDG PET/CT in Bone and Joint Diseases
22. 18F-NaF PET/CT in Bone and Joint Diseases
23. A Genetic Consideration of Skeletal Disorders
24. General Gamma Correction Pinhole Bone Scan Diagnosis
25. Gamma Correction 99mTc-HDP Pinhole Scan Diagnosis of Trabecular Microfracture and Contusion
26. Miscellanea of Gamma Correction Pinhole Scan

In the fifth edition of this highly successful book, the author once again aims to equip the reader with up-to-date information that will facilitate accurate diagnosis of bone and joint diseases by means of combined use of scintigraphy and radiology. Two entirely new chapters have been added, one on the use of 18F-NaF PET/CT and the other on gamma correction scan diagnosis of bone trabecular microfracture and microcontusion as well as bone edema and hemorrhage. Further topics covered for the first time include enthesopathies, myositis, soft tissue diseases, cryptic bones, and differential diagnosis. Individual chapters have been updated and rearranged to reflect the latest advances in imaging diagnosis. As before, a vast number of state of the art gamma correction pinhole bone scans and corroborative conventional radiographs and CT, MRI, and/or ultrasound images are presented side by side. In this new edition, extension of the application of gamma correction to other imaging methods such as MRI and CT and the solution of the halation problem are necessarily addressed. This fifth edition of Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases will be essential reading for practitioners and researchers in nuclear medicine, radiology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, anatomy, and imaging sciences at large.

Features
• Equips the reader with the state of the art information required for accurate diagnosis of bone and joint diseases by combined use of scintigraphy and radiology
• Includes many updates and covers more topics than the previous edition
• Contains new chapters on the use of 18F-NaF PET/CT and diagnosis of bone trabecular microfracture and microcontusion

Author
Yong-Whee Bahk, Professor Emeritus, M.D., Ph.D.Department of Nuclear Medicine and RadiologyThe Catholic University of Korea School of MedicineSeoulSouth Korea