# Nuclide record infection-prosthetic-joint (indication). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/indications/infection-prosthetic-joint/>
  a schema:MedicalCondition ;
  nuclide:kind "indication" ;
  schema:identifier "infection-prosthetic-joint" ;
  schema:name "Prosthetic joint infection"@en ;
  schema:description "When a replacement hip or knee might be infected, doctors can label a small sample of the patient's own white blood cells with a radioactive tracer and watch, over a day, whether they gather around the implant the way they would around a real infection."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/indications/infection-prosthetic-joint/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6450843/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6450843/>, <https://snmmi.org/common/Uploaded%20files/Web/Clinical%20Practice/Procedure%20Standards/2024/EANM%20SNMMI%20Guideline%20FDG%20Infection%20and%20Inflammation_SNMMI%20BOD%20FINAL.pdf>, <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448131/> ;
  nuclide:tag "infection", "orthopaedics", "SPECT" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/indications/fever-of-unknown-origin/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect-ct/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet-ct/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/fdg-pet/> ;
  nuclide:drugs <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/technetium-sulfur-colloid/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/fludeoxyglucose-f18/> .