Clinical and epidemiological profile and description of the results of bone single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with neck and back pain: Cross-sectional study
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rccot.2021.08.001Keywords:
Tomography, Emission-computed, Single-photon, SPECT, Cervical pain, Low back pain, EpidemiologyAbstract
Background: SPECT bone scan with is an important diagnostic tool in patients with neck and back pain. It is a functional test that anticipates structural changes in some spinal pathologies. Aim of study is to define the epidemiological profile of patients with chronic and/or subacute axial spine pain.
Methods: A retrospective descriptive study whose general objective is to present the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics, as well as the results of the SPECT scans of the patients who visited the Hospital in a period of time with a diagnosis of neck or back pain and were requested such an examination.
Results: Seventy-seven patients met the inclusion criteria. The median age was 48 years, 57.1% were men and 42.9% were women. Fifty-seven patients had a single location of pain (74%) and 20 patients had multiple location (26%), the affected segments were 57 lumbar (74%), cervical 15 (19.5%) and sacrum 1 (1.3%). The most common pre-examination diagnostic impression was facet disease in 25 cases for 32.5%. Regarding the SPECT results, the radiopharmaceutical captured on 48 occasions (62.3%) and the sites where it captured the radiopharmaceutical were distributed as follows: facets 13 (16.9%), vertebral body 28 (36.4%), pars interarticularis 3 (3.8%).), intervertebral disc 1 (1.3%), 3 (3.8%) captured in sites other than the spine. The diagnostic concordance index after SPECT occurred in 33 cases (42.85%).
Discussion: Most of the uptake scans were in the vertebral bodies, beneath the context of our hospital, as a trauma center, and that many of the patients had pain secondary to traffic accidents or work behavior accidents, they are correlated with micro-fractures or bone contusions. SPECT scintigraphy continues to be a functional test that can help us in the diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic approach of patients with axial spinal pain in its different stages.
Evidence Level: III
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