MDP bone scan in the early identification of polyarticular aspergillosis

Abstract

Figure 1. (A) 20 millicurie of Tc-MDP was injected intravenously and 3 h later whole body anterior and posterior images were acquired on a dual-head variable-angle gamma camera. Images show hot spots in the right sacroiliac, hip, and right knee joints (arrows). (B) Magnetic resonance image of the pelvis (T2-STIR: ‘short TI inversion recovery’ is an inversion recovery pulse sequence with specific timing so as to suppress the signal from fat, for better soft tissue visualization) was later done, and showed a hyper-intense signal in the right sacroiliac joint and hip joint with post-contrast enhancement.