PMID: 11926378Apr 3, 2002Paper

Diagnosis, characterisation and evaluation of treatment response of frostbite using pertechnetate scintigraphy: a prospective study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Aseem BhatnagarRavi Kashyap

Abstract

No large prospective study is available on use of a radionuclide method to assess frostbite and its response to conservative treatment. Recently, a large retrospective study using two-phase bone scintigraphy suggested that non-uptake (or low uptake) in frostbite lesions in the blood pool or bone phase had a strong correlation with the subsequent need for amputation. In the present study, we performed early blood pool scintigraphy with technetium-99m pertechnetate in 20 patients (10-180 days after frostbite injury; 71 clinical lesions) referred for a topical treatment protocol for mild to moderately severe frostbite, and in 22 asymptomatic controls. The aims of the study were to define the "normal" microcirculation of the hands and feet, to characterise the appearances of frostbite lesions on scintigraphy and correlate these with the clinical presentation, and to evaluate the usefulness of scintigraphy for assessing the treatment response. Six patients were "fresh", 12 had been undergoing conservative treatment (topical homeopathic) for several weeks and two had permanent fibrotic hand phalanges. Nine patients on treatment underwent serial scintigraphy a total of 22 times. Eleven patients were imaged only once, including the two...Continue Reading

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