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Table 1.

Reported Performance of Radionuclide Methods for the Diagnosis of Sacroiliitis.

Ref.	Method	Patients	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
⁶	Quantitative bone scintigraphy with technetium-99m-MDP	207	Any sacroiliitis, 64.9 Bilateral sacroiliitis, 40.2 Unilateral sacroiliitis, 24.7	Any sacroiliitis, 50.5 Bilateral sacroiliitis, 57.7 Unilateral sacroiliitis, 92.8
⁷	Quantitative bone scintigraphy with technetium-99m-MDP	30	32	100
⁹	Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)	91	80	95
¹¹	Combined SPECT/CT imaging	20	80	84.6
¹⁸	Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT	15	80	77

CT, computed tomography; MDP, methylene diphosphate; SPECT, single-photon emission computed tomography

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2016 October; 7(4): e0037.
Special Issue on Rheumatology Guest Editor: Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, M.D.
ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2016 October 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10264