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The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 68-B, Issue 4 | Pages 647 - 652
1 Aug 1986
Pring D Henderson R Rivett A Krausz T Coombs R Lavender J

To detect sepsis in the painful joint, autologous granulocytes labelled with indium-111 were used to scan 60 patients with 74 prosthetic joints. All 18 patients with confirmed sepsis had positive scans, that is, migration of granulocytes into the region of the prosthesis. Of the 22 sterile arthroplasties 20 had negative scans. In 34 cases there was good correlation between the clinical impression and the result of the scan. We suggest that indium granulocyte scintigraphy is a reliable method of detecting an infected prosthesis.