Table 15.

Study characteristics of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for detection of periprosthetic hip infection

Study	Tracer	Doses	Criteria for infection
van Acker et al. [50]	18F-FDG	3.7*Kg/8 MBq	Focal FDG uptake at the BPI
Zhuang et al. [56]	18F-FDG	4.22–4.56 MBq/kg	When an area of increased uptake was detected in the BPI, compared with adjacent soft tissue
Love et al. [21]	18F-FDG	150–220 MBq	Semiquantitative analysis of bone-prosthesis-interface (target-background ratio)
Mayer-Wagner et al. [23]	18F-FDG	180 MBq	Increased uptake at the distal BPI of the femoral shield and/or of the stem of the tibial prosthesis
Basu et al. [2]	18F-FDG	0.14 mCi/kg	Only uptake in the BPI

Diagnostic odds ratio 19,083: heterogeneity chi-square = 6.92 (df = 4), p = 0.140, inconsistency (I²) = 42.2%; 18F-FDG = fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG); BPI = bone-prosthesis interface.