Table 2.
Definite diagnosis of skeletal infection caused by Coccidioides spp. and imaging techniques that each case underwent during the process of diagnosing the infection. MRI: magnetic resonance imaging, CT: computer tomography, NR: not reported (although the specimen (bone, tissue, abscess, etc.) studied is not reported, the technique is).
| Case | MRI | C/T X-ray |
Bone Scanning with 99mTc | Cultures | Biopsy | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 2. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 3. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 4. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | - | |
| 5. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 6. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 7. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 8. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 9. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 10. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 11. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 12. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 13. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 14. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 15. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 16. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 17. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 18. | + | + | + | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 19. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 20. | + | + | - | drainage material | - | - |
| 21. | - | + | - | drainage material | - | - |
| 22. | + | + | + | bone specimen | serology | |
| 23. | - | - | + | tissue specimen | serology | |
| 24. | - | - | + | tissue specimen | - | serology |
| 25. | - | + | + | - | tissue specimen | serology |
| 26. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 27. | - | + | - | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 28. | - | + | - | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 29. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | - | - |
| 30. | + | + | + | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 31. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 32. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 33. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | - | - |
| 34. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 35. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 36. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 37. | + | + | + | tissue specimen | - | - |
| 38. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 39. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 40. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 41. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 42. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 43. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | - | - |
| 44. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 45. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 46. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 47. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 48. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 49. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | serology |
| 50. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 51. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 52. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 53. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 54. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | - | serology |
| 55. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 56. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 57. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 58. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 59. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 60. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 61. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 62. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 63. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 64. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 65. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 66. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 67. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 68. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | - | serology |
| 69. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | - | serology |
| 70. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 71. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 72. | NR | NR | NR | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 73. | NR | NR | NR | - | - | serology |
| 74. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 75. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 76. | NR | NR | NR | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 77. | + | - | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 78. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | - |
| 79. | + | + | - | - | serology | |
| 80. | - | + | + | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 81. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | tissue specimen | serology |
| 82. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 83. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | - | serology |
| 84. | + | + | - | tissue specimen | - | - |
| 85. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 86. | + | - | - | - | tissue specimen | - |
| 87. | + | + | - | - | tissue specimen | - |