Hiatal hernia in iodine-131 scintigraphy: a potential cause of false-positive midline thoracic uptake.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were to perform multiparametric response assessment of metastatic/advanced pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) to Lu-DOTATATE peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) (clinical, biochemical, molecular/structural imaging, and survival assessment) and to study the relationship bet...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Parghane RV,Talole S,Prabhash K,Basu S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES:To evaluate the dosimetric effect of outpatient radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer in members of a patient's family and their living environment, when using iodine-131 doses reaching 7.4 GBq. The following parameters were thus defined: (a) whole-body radiation doses to caregivers, (b) the production of con...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Willegaignon J,Sapienza M,Ono C,Watanabe T,Guimarães MI,Gutterres R,Marechal MH,Buchpiguel C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-month-old female child with a history of stage IV favorable biology neuroblastoma with a 123-I MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine scan) avid adrenal mass, with retroperitoneal nodal extension and bony metastasis, was in complete remission after intense multimodal therapy. Seventeen months after diagnosis a surveillanc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Schindler T,Yu C,Rossleigh M,Pereira J,Cohn R

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thallium-201 uptake patterns in the orbits are not widely known. Diffuse, bilateral orbital localization of TI-201 chloride may be an incidental finding because of orbital muscle or other soft tissue uptake. Differences in orbital blood flow and soft tissue mass may be the cause of the varying uptake intensities in mo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Durak H,Durak I,Derebek E,Kaynak S,Metin E,Ergin M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic pulmonary calcification (MPC) characterized by diffuse calcium deposition in the lungs is known to occur in patients with chronic renal failure. However, MPC with pulmonary artery calcification is uncommon and has only been detected in a few patients with severe disorders. A 48-year-old man with chronic ren...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cherng SC,Cheng CY,Chen CY,Hsu HH,Chu P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral vascular lesions are integral to the diagnosis of vascular parkinsonism (VP). The VP, also referred to as lower body parkinsonism, is frequently caused by subcortical white matter lesions, but lesions at any levels of the nigro-striato-thalamo-cortical pathway can also cause VP, thus giving rise to various sy...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kim C,Kim DY,Hong IK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of false-negative Tc-99m MDP bone scintigrams, taken at one and two weeks for pathologic fractures in a patient with metabolic bone disease and a super-scan appearance, is described. The patient had renal osteodystrophy, and postparathyroidectomy hypocalcemia. Postoperative seizures caused multiple pathologic f...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Campeau RJ,Bellah RD,Varma DG

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:A 54-year-old woman was referred because of dizziness with fatigue for 2 months. MRI of the head and spinal cord revealed multiple ring or homogeneous enhancing nodules in the brain and spinal cord, concerning for metastases. FDG PET/CT showed multiple hypermetabolic nodules in the brain and spinal cord corres...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu M,Lu L,Liu Q,Bai Y,Dong A

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old man with a swollen right testicle also had dry cough for 3 months. Computed tomography of the chest showed multiple calcified lung nodules and lymph nodes in the hilum. FDG PET/CT revealed elevated FDG activity not only in the right testicle mass but also calcified thoracic lesions. Histologic examinatio...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sun D,Yu R,Geng D,Chen J,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a poorly differentiated non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma, more frequent in children than in adults. The extranodal debut of the disease is rare. We report a 43-year-old male patient with history of dyspnea. Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis was reached after biopsy of a pleural lesion. An initial staging ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jiménez Granero P,García Gómez FJ,Ruiz Mercado M,Borrego Dorado I

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-FDG PET is a tool widely used in many indications, mainly for staging malignant neoplasm. A correct interpretation of images requires knowledge of physiological uptake. The most frequently encountered can be found in head and neck area (language, masticator muscles, and ocular muscles). Many of them can be limited t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Schwartz P Jr,Pinaquy JB

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual posterior extension of the right lobe of the liver mimicked a retroperitoneal mass on CT scanning. Tc-99m SC SPECT imaging documented normal liver uptake within the suspected mass, proving that it was an anomalous extension of the right lobe of the liver rather than a pathologic lesion. This unusual liver v...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Karlins NL,Marmolya G,Miron S

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 104 chest radionuclide angiography (CRNA) studies establishes the utility of this procedure in the evaluation of pulmonary malignancies and benign masses. Remarkable abnormalities in the perfusion of the lungs were identified in 36 (58%) of 62 cases that were not predictably normal or predi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hartshorne MF,Bauman JM,Telepak RJ,Karl RD,Cawthon MA,Howard WH 3rd,Bunker SR

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old woman underwent F-FDG PET/CT after developing a fever of unknown origin. PET/CT revealed intensive FDG uptake at the nasal and lung lesions. On the laboratory data, serum myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) titer was elevated, although serum directed against proteinase 3 (PR3) AN...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ito K,Minamimoto R,Yamashita H,Morooka M,Okasaki M,Mimori A,Kubota K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although positron emission tomography (PET) is an established diagnostic method in brain and lung cancer, its use is often confined to research. The authors report a case of a minimally symptomatic intramedullary spinal cord metastasis, an uncommon and often diagnostically challenging lesion, that was confirmed by PET...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Poggi MM,Patronas N,Buttman JA,Hewitt SM,Fuller B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with labile hypertension and elevated metanephrines who underwent 123Iodine metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) for the detection of a possible paraganglioma. The scan revealed markedly abnormal diffusely increased activity in the right renal parenchyma. A CT angiogram showed severe renal artery steno...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jordan A,Seltzer M,Siegel A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In normal aging persons, oxygen and glucose consumption progressively decreases with reduced cerebral blood flow (CBF), which could be responsible for age-related changes in cognitive functions. A data processing model with the use of Tc-99m SPECT of the human brain has been developed and found to be sensitive ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dormehl IC,Jordaan B,Oliver DW,Croft S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfusion lung scintigraphy using SPECT/CT is one mainstay in diagnosing pulmonary embolism. Although typically almost all tracer will be accumulated in the lung capillaries, occasionally abnormal uptake can be detected. As superior vena cava syndrome leads to aberrant blood flow, tracer injected to an arm vein might ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kersting D,Guberina N,Umutlu L,Stuschke M,Hautzel H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal scintigraphy with Tc-99m MAA was performed in nine patients with carcinomatous peritonitis secondary to ovarian or tubal carcinoma. Tc-99m MAA (370 MBq) and NaCl was delivered through an implantable injection port. For patients with good diffusion on intraperitoneal scintigraphy, intraperitoneal chemot...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sugimura K,Okizuka H,Kaji Y,Ishida T,Iwanari O,Kitao M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old female gymnast had a 3-month history of bilateral forearm pain. A Tc-99m MDP bone scan demonstrated focally increased activity in the radial shafts on blood pool and delayed images, characteristic of fatigue fractures. Fatigue fractures commonly occur in the lower extremities. Upper extremity fatigue fra...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ahluwalia R,Datz FL,Morton KA,Anderson CM,Whiting JH Jr

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melorheostosis is a rare but benign disorder characterized by asymmetric osteosclerotic dysplasia. Radiographic appearances are characteristic and described as "melting wax flowing down a candle." This disorder may involve more than one bone contiguously across the joints following a sclerotomal distribution. It is of...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sonoda LI,Halim MY,Balan KK

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old woman presented to the emergency department for bloody stools. A CT scan of the abdomen ruled out intussusception. Meckel's scan was ordered to rule for Meckel's diverticulum before upper endoscopy and colonoscopy. After proper pretreatment with H2 blocker, Tc-pertechnetate Meckel's scan was performed. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa R,Menda Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technetium-99m-hexamibi (methoxy isobutyl isonitrile) is a Tc-99m-hexakis analog that can be used as a myocardial perfusion imaging agent. This is a report of an initial study that was performed in four institutions to assess the feasibility of Tc-99m-hexamibi myocardial imaging for the detection of coronary artery di...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Taillefer R,Dupras G,Sporn V,Rigo P,Leveille J,Boucher P,Perez-Balino N,Camin LL,McKusick KA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regadenoson is a pharmacologic stress agent that has been widely adopted as an alternative over other pharmacologic vasodilator agents due to its ease of use, patient tolerance, and safety profile. We report the case of dynamic ST-segment elevation electrocardiogram changes after regadenoson injection during an inpati...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Qamruddin S,Huang HW,Mehra A,Bonyadlou S,Yoon AJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old woman confined to bed and wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis (MS) presented with complaints of sharp, bilateral hip pain (left greater than right) that radiated to the thighs with point tenderness to trochanteric palpation. She had received several courses of high-dose intravenous corticosteroids for M...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Caruso FA,Toney MA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of brain imaging has grown rapidly with new modalities, hybrid combinations of existing modalities, and novel metabolic tracers. F-florbetapir is an amyloid plaque-binding molecule labeled to F that allows positron imaging of the amyloid deposition in the brain. This protein deposition is known to be one...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vercher-Conejero JL,Rubbert C,Kohan AA,Partovi S,O'Donnell JK

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteonecrosis and osteopenia are widely recognized skeletal complications of therapy in recipients of renal transplants. These conditions are often complicated by fractures, usually in the femora, pelvis or vertebrae. The authors describe two sedentary adult allograft recipients who presented with leg pain and in whom...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Larcos G,Gruenewald SM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Captopril renal scintigraphy is a well-known noninvasive tool in the diagnosis of renovascular hypertension. The authors present a case of a patient with malignant hypertension whose captopril renal scintigraphy suggested bilateral and equal renovascular hypertension. His renal angiogram, however, demonstrated no rena...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pelsang RE,Rezai K

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case that demonstrates the continued high sensitivity of Tc-99m SC liver-spleen imaging for thoracic splenosis. A patient with profound weight loss, positive PPD and left upper lobe lung density on a chest radiograph was felt to have a strong clinical suspicion of a malignant pulmonary lesion. Tw...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hardin VM,Morgan ME

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We describe a new method for measuring brain tumor uptake of TI-201 and Tc-99m sestamibi (MIBI) that permits the semiquantitative comparison of tracer uptake to yield comparable "tumor bulk" ratios. We tested this method in patients treated recently and remotely with chemotherapy to determine if this method cou...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： San Pedro EC,Yilmaz M,Liu HG,Rosenfeld SS,Mountz JM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00