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However, the diagnostic performance of 18F-FDG PET\/CT in clinically occult low-grade surgical site infection (SSI) after spinal fusion, an important risk factor for pseudarthrosis, remains unknown.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Methods\u2003We retrospectively identified all the presumed aseptic patients with pseudarthrosis confirmed by revision surgery who underwent preoperative 18F-FDG PET\/CT scans performed between April 2019 and November 2022. These patients were presumed aseptic because they did not have clinical signs or laboratory tests suggestive of SSI, preoperatively. The PET\/CT images were analyzed in consensus by two nuclear medicine physicians blinded to the clinical, biological, and imaging information. Visual assessment of increased uptake around cage\/intervertebral disk space (and\/or hardware) higher than background recorded from the first normal adjacent vertebra was interpreted as positive. Image data were also quantitatively analyzed by the maximum standardized uptake value as an index of 18F-FDG uptake, and the ratio between the uptake around cage\/intervertebral disk space (and\/or hardware) and background recorded from the first normal adjacent vertebra was calculated. The final diagnosis of infection was based on intraoperative cultures obtained during pseudarthrosis revision surgery.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Results\u2003Thirty-six presumed aseptic patients with surgically confirmed pseudarthrosis after spinal fusion underwent preoperative 18F-FDG PET\/CT scans. Cultures of samples from revisions found that 20 patients (56%) were infected. The most frequent isolated bacterium was Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) in 15 patients (75%), followed by coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) in 7 patients (33%). Two patients had co-infections involving both C. acnes and CNS. Of the 36 PET\/CT studied in this study, 12 scans were true-negative, 10 true-positive, 10 false-negative, and 4 false-positive. This resulted in sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and diagnostic accuracy of 50%, 75%, 71%, 55%, and 61%, respectively.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Conclusion\u2003In presumed aseptic pseudarthrosis after spinal fusion, 18F-FDG PET\/CT offers good specificity (75%) but low sensitivity (50%) to identify occult SSI. The high prevalence (56%) of SSI, mostly caused by C. acnes (75%), found in our presumed aseptic cohort of patients supports the utility of systematic intraoperative cultures in revision cases for pseudarthrosis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0044-1778711","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,23]],"date-time":"2024-01-23T00:24:10Z","timestamp":1705969450000},"page":"017-024","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Value of 18F-FDG PET\/CT to Identify Occult Infection in Presumed Aseptic Pseudarthrosis after Spinal Fusion: Correlation with Intraoperative Cultures"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yacine","family":"El Yaagoubi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Lioret","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cl\u00e9ment","family":"Thomas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jean-Edouard","family":"Loret","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, NCT+ Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Adrien","family":"Simonneau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, NCT+ Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anne-Victoire","family":"Michaud-Robert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Laurent","family":"Philippe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maja","family":"Ogielska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Caroline","family":"Prunier-Aesch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vinci Clinic, Tours, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,22]]},"reference":[{"issue":"03","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"349","DOI":"10.1097\/00007632-199203000-00018","article-title":"Results of lumbosacral fusion for degenerative disc disease with and without instrumentation. 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