Clinical Use of Quantitative Analysis of Bone Scintigraphy to Assess the Involvement of Arthritis Diseases in Patients with Joint Symptoms.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to compare the diagnostic ability of quantitative analysis of bone scintigraphy with that of visual analysis for identifying arthritis disease involvement in patients with joint symptoms. We retrospectively included 93 patients with joint symptoms who underwent Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy for evaluating arthritis disease involvement. Bone scintigraphy images were visually and quantitatively analyzed using an in-house software by two reviewers. On quantitative analysis, joint uptake ratio was measured for 64 joints in 14 joints areas. The inter-rater agreement of visual and quantitative analyses was assessed, and diagnostic abilities were compared based on the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) values. Regarding visual analysis,

SUBMITTER: Lee JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7761348 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature