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Clinical Study

SPECT versus Planar Scintigraphy as a Clinical Aid in Evaluation of the Elderly with Knee Pain

Table 9

Table 9 summarizes the correlations found between excessive tenderness to palpation in the different knee compartments and planar scintigraphy and SPECT in the study symptomatic patient group.


Mapping method	Pattern and power of uptake in different knee compartments	Excessive tenderness to palpation at medial knee compartment	Excessive tenderness to palpation at lateral knee compartment	Excessive tenderness to palpation at patellofemoral knee compartment

Planar scintigrphy	LatFmPs	0.0423	0.6371	0.0500
	LatFmPw	0.4733	0.7743	0.0368
	LatTiPs	0.3453	0.7725	0.9752
	LatTiPw	0.3470	0.9457	0.9130
	MedFmPs	0.2809	0.4444	0.0656
	MedFmPw	0.0380	0.4532	0.1528
	MedTiPs	0.0701	0.1826	0.2800
	MedTiPw	0.0149	0.0590	0.0343
	PtMedPs	0.2604	0.6691	0.0247
	PtMedPw	0.9584	0.7969	0.7019
	PtLatPs	0.1476	0.2224	0.0080
	PtLatPw	0.1487	0.5221	0.9187

SPECT	LatFmPs	0.7767	0.5536	0.0002
	LatFmPw	0.1971	0.8991	0.0162
	LatTiPs	0.3737	0.4677	0.0985
	LatTiPw	0.0076	0.5286	0.0549
	MedFmPs	0.6892	0.9376	0.0129
	MedFmPw	0.2763	0.9642	0.0476
	MedTiPs	0.0014	0.9239	<0.0001
	MedTiPw	0.0017	0.3330	0.0003
	PtMedPs	0.2477	0.3595	0.2462
	PtMedPw	0.2942	0.4196	0.2258
	PtLatPs	0.2880	0.5102	0.5566
	PtLatPw	0.8385	0.4376	0.8241
	RetPtPs	0.5712	0.4778	0.0876
	RetPtPw	0.7996	0.8283	0.2477