Tc-99m DMSA renal scan in first-time versus recurrent urinary tract infection-yield and patterns of abnormalities.

abstract：:A 74-year-old man underwent excisional biopsy of an anterior mediastinal mass that revealed squamous cell carcinoma of thymic origin. Immunohistochemistry revealed insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor positivity, which has been associated with worse prognosis. Restaging FDG PET/CT revealed extensive soft tissue and o...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： VanDreel A,Patel D,Emmadi R,Lu Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to retrospectively analyze the prognostic value of combined Tc-macroaggregated albumin (MAA) SPECT/CT and [F]-fluoroethylcholine (FEC) PET/CT before radioembolization for survival of patients with intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS:Twenty-four patients with known hepatoc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hartenbach M,Weber S,Pilz M,Hartenbach S,Zacherl MJ,Paprottka PM,Tiling R,Bartenstein P,Hacker M,Haug AR,Albert NL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While performing lymphoscintigraphy to define draining lymph node groups and sentinel nodes in patients with melanoma, the authors have discovered a new lymphatic channel in two patients with tumors in the peri-umbilical area. This channel passes over the right costal margin to an interval node before passing toward t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Uren RF,Howman-Giles RB,Thompson JF,Shaw HM,McCarthy WH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive gastric mucosa Meckel diverticulum generally shows nonmoving activity in the right abdomen, which appears early in the study at about the same time of the appearance of the stomach. However, a stoma from ileostomy can result in similar findings on dynamic images. The difference between a true Meckel diverticu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wen Z,Salerno L,Zhuang H

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic fibrosis and malignant lymphoma were studied with positron emission tomography (PET) using 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-D-glucose (F-18DG). Cases of retroperitoneal fibrosis and sclerosing peritonitis showed low F-18DG uptake with the mass/muscle radioactivity (M/M) ratio 2.0 and 1.9, respectively. A case of para...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kubota K,Yamada K,Yoshioka S,Yamada S,Ito M,Ido T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to make a comparison between the uptake of Tc-99m MIBI and Tl-201 in evaluation of musculoskeletal lesions. Fourteen cases were studied. Each study consisted of a Tl-201 study followed by a Tc-99m MIBI scan. In addition, a whole-body bone scan was performed in each patient to visualize bone m...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Adalet I,Ozger H,Cantez S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old man had severe left anterior knee pain after a trivial injury. A three-phase bone scan diagnosed this condition to be reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which was subsequently confirmed by sympathetic blockade. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Malhotra R,Dhingra SS,Padhy AK,Kumar R,Ravishankar U

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-11 acetate positron emission tomography (PET) is known to have high sensitivity in detecting hepatocellular carcinoma. However, one of the shortcomings of C-11 acetate PET in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma is that C-11 acetate also accumulates in focal nodular hyperplasia, which makes it challenging to di...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Huo L,Wu Z,Zhuang H,Fu Z,Dang Y

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the inconsistent supply of (99m)Tc and the increasingly widespread use of PET/CT have led to a renewed interest in PET/CT bone scans using (18)F-NaF. Recently, a 64-year-old man with biopsy-proven lung cancer underwent an (18)F-NaF PET/CT bone scan due to a shortage of (99m)Tc. Unexpectedly, multiple ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wu J,Zhu H,Ji H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is rarely recognized as an osseous manifestations alone. Patients with osseous involvement usually have a chronic multivisceral form of the disease. The authors report a case of osseous sarcoidosis without other visceral involvement. A bone scan was requested to evaluate the extent of the bone involvement ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Benelhadj S,Patrois F,Duet M,Bérolatti B,Mundler O

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 58-year-old man whose incidentally discovered papillary thyroid carcinoma in the left lobe showed high FDG and low FLT uptake on PET/CT. The SUVmax was 19.7 for FDG and 3.0 for FLT. The Ki-67 labeling index of the tumor was 1.9%. Thus, the low FLT uptake might be attributed to the low proliferative activit...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nakajo M,Nakajo M,Kajiya Y,Jinguji M,Mori S,Aridome K,Suenaga T,Tanaka S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is an endemic disease in the Middle East. Its incidence in Kuwait has increased during the last 5 years. Bone and joint involvement causes major symptoms and disabilities. Radionuclide bone scans are more sensitive than radiographs in detecting these lesions. The aim of this study is to describe the abnorm...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bahar RH,Al-Suhaili AR,Mousa AM,Nawaz MK,Kaddah N,Abdel-Dayem HM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense FDG uptake by bone marrow following recent chemotherapy limits evaluation for osseous metastases. The impact of marrow rebound on accuracy of (18)F-fluoride PET/CT is unclear. A 73-year-old woman with breast cancer presented for restaging FDG PET/CT, which showed intense activity throughout almost the entire a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Avery R,Kuo PH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the abdomen studied by gallium SPECT imaging is reported. The tomographic slices accurately demonstrated the location of residual disease after chemotherapy in the region of the transverse mesocolon. Previous transmission CT had shown considerable persistent retroperitoneal lymphade...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Adcock KA,Friefeld GD,Waldron JA Jr

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old man diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma of the left nasal ala was referred for preoperative scintigraphic sentinel lymph node mapping. In three separate foci around the lesion, 0.2 mCi of Tc-sulfur colloid was intradermally administered. Planar images demonstrated accumulation of tracer midway between t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bermo MS,Leung A,Behnia F

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 35-year-old man presented with right lower extremity numbness and weakness. CT demonstrated an irregular left parietal hypoattenuation with a punctuate calcification. MRI revealed a T1 low signal and T2 high signal lesion with extensive surrounding edema. Gadolinium-enhanced MRI showed an irregular enhancing lesion....

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zeng T,Ji ZY,Shi SS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 43-year-old man who underwent a radical prostatectomy 3 years before the procedure (June 2015) for a locally advanced Gleason 7(4 + 3) prostate adenocarcinoma (pT3aN0), with negative surgical margins, followed by salvage radiotherapy. He also underwent antiandrogen therapy for biochemical relapse...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mariotti GC,Cunha ML,Carneiro A,Smaletz O,Baroni RH,Garcia RG

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man with recently diagnosed prostate cancer was referred for Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT with elevated prostate-specific antigen. PET/CT demonstrated increased PSMA uptake in an undisplaced transverse fracture of the L1 vertebral body. This case illustrates that PSMA uptake can oc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vamadevan S,Le K,Bui C,Mansberg R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic epithelioid angiomyolipoma (AML) is rare. Although generally epithelioid AML shows benign biological behavior, it can occasionally have malignant potential. In this study, we report a case of 2 hepatic epithelioid AMLs with different F-FDG uptake; one is intensely FDG avid, and the other is non-FDG avid. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Li B,Hou J,Yu H,Shi H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-inlet left ventricle (DILV) is a congenital heart disease that only a single left ventricle and a rudimentary right ventricle are developed. Because of lack of anatomic landmark, interpretation of Tl myocardial perfusion imaging in DILV is essentially challenging for unusual anomaly. We report the case of a 44-...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chang MC,Lee ML,Yang PT

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 36-year-old woman who previously underwent total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma. F FDG PET/CT images demonstrated multiple lymph nodes with increased FDG uptake in the neck, chest, and abdomen and diffusely increased FDG uptake in the spleen, which were highly suspicious findings...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Han EJ,Park HL,Kim SH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is a relatively newly recognized subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The common histopathologic features are myocyte necrosis without significant inflammation. Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy can be associated with connective tissue disorders but can also be triggered ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pelissou C,Lerolle N,Labeyrie C,Durand E,Besson FL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical alterations of brain metabolism, as seen in PET, obviously depend on the nature of the damage (either mechanical, toxic, anoxic, or other). However, some subcortical abnormalities seem to occur rather frequently regardless of the extension, position and cause of the damage. In particular, relative cerebellar ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lupi A,Bertagnoni G,Salgarello M,Orsolon P,Malfatti V,Zanco P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosing prosthetic joint infection is difficult; clinical signs and symptoms, laboratory tests, radiography, and joint aspiration are less sensitive and specific. We report a patient with fever and painful bilateral hip prosthesis, who underwent Tc-sulesomab scan showing moderate tracer uptake at the lateral surfac...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Albano D,Bosio G,Paghera B,Bertagna F

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic subdural hematoma (SDH) is difficult to diagnose by clinical manifestations only. Nonspecific neurologic symptoms and signs may lead physicians to make other diagnoses. Although head trauma is the most common cause, it may be considered insignificant or omitted due to its minor initial manifestations. We prese...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hsieh TC,Kao CH,Wu YC,Wang CH,Yen KY,Sun SS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of technetium-99m N,N-ethylenedicysteine (Tc-99m EC) in comparison to technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (Tc-99m DMSA) scintigraphy. Differential renal function (DRF) was calculated by both methods and the cortical-phase images of dynamic Tc-99m EC scin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Buyukdereli G,Guney IB

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of morphine-augmented cholescintigraphy was reviewed in 32 patients with suspected acute cholecystitis. All patients were administered 2 mg morphine sulfate intravenously when the gallbladder failed to visualize 30 minutes into the study, and imaging continued for up to 60 minutes. Sensitivity for detectio...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kistler AM,Ziessman HA,Gooch D,Bitterman P

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by intravascular proliferation of clonal lymphocytes within the lumen of small vessels, which is often fatal. Diffuse FDG uptake in the lung without clear/evident CT findings, "hot lung," is quasi-pathognomonic for lung intravascu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Şahin Ö,Kaya B,Serdengeçti M,Çizmecioğlu HA,Şen AE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In recent years, several case reports have described venous thromboembolism (VTE) on FDG PET/CT. In this short communication, we present results from a proof-of-concept pilot study aimed at providing some preliminary data on the efficacy of FDG PET/CT in prospective patients with suspected VTE. PATIENTS AND ME...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hess S,Madsen PH,Iversen ED,Frifelt JJ,Høilund-Carlsen PF,Alavi A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer is a rare thyroid cancer, accounts for approximately 5% of all thyroid cancer cases, and is associated with a poor prognosis. It commonly metastasizes to regional lymph nodes, lung, and bones. We present a patient with poorly differentiated thyroid cancer with unusual extensive spr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ma HY,Moadel R,Freeman LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00