Evaluation of parathyroid tissue transplants by TI-201 scintigraphy.

abstract：:The performance of Tc-99m MDP vs Tc-99m dicarboxypropane diphosphonate (DPD) was evaluated in 20 patients with various skeletal bone diseases. Each patient was investigated twice, with an interval of three days between studies and using the same protocol, hence each case served as its own control. The results were: In...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Godart G,Durez M,Bevilacqua M,Abramovici J,Robience Y

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer disease. It is often underdiagnosed because of the overlapping with Alzheimer disease symptoms. We report the F-FDG and F-florbetapir dynamic PET images (early and delay phases) of an 83-year-old woman with cognitive impairment associ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： López-Mora DA,Camacho V,Lleó A,Fernández A,Carrió I

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the case of a 27-year-old woman with gamma probe-guided resection of a recurrent regional lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer. Reoperation is often impaired in cases with extensive scarring because of previous surgery, high-dose radioiodine therapy, and external irradiation. In this ca...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gallowitsch HJ,Fellinger J,Mikosch P,Kresnik E,Lind P

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:The value of using heparin as a pharmacologic intervention to induce a positive scintiscan was studied in a patient with chronic occult gastrointestinal bleeding. When all standard diagnostic tests (upper and lower gastrointestinal series, upper and lower endoscopy, and conventional noninterventional Tc-99m RBC imagin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chaudhuri TK,Brantly M

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal nodular fat sparing of the liver may show, on PET/CT imaging, prominent tracer uptake over a background of less metabolic features of steatosis. This finding, already reported with F-FDG, may mimic primary or secondary neoplasms of the liver. The authors present an additional case of nodular fat-sparing hepatic ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nguyen BD,Heller MT,Roarke MC

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the renal excretion quantitatively, the authors analyzed the Tc-99m DTPA renogram using mean transit time (MTT) with deconvolution analysis and compared it to the perfusion index. One hundred thirteen studies consisting of 25 normal, 11 obstruction, 35 transplant-norm, 12 transplant-obstruction, a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kubota K,Atkins HL,Anaise D,Oster ZH,Pollack W

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plummer's disease (autonomous goiter) presents a spectrum of forms, raging from solitary autonomous thyroid nodules to numerous small autonomous areas, and from unequivocal to servere hyperthyroidism. Progression is often very slow, but data on long-term follow up are scare, contradictory and limited to solitary nodul...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wiener JD,de Vries AA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a new approach to the evaluation of brain perfusion reserve using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. Consecutive brain Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT studies before and after acetazolamide (Diamox) administration were performed within 30 minutes on 19 patients with significant vascular occlusive lesions. Thirteen patients ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Matsuda H,Higashi S,Kinuya K,Tsuji S,Nozaki J,Sumiya H,Hisada K,Yamashita J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both female adnexal tumor of possible wolffian origin (FATWO) and metastasis to the appendix from any primary tumor are extremely rare entities. The appendiceal metastasis from FATWO has not been reported, and there is a lack of the literature regarding FDG PET/CT study in both. We reported the case of an appendiceal ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 63-year-old woman chronic smoker with a history of severe rheumatoid arthritis, who presented with dyspnea and cough. Her chest x-ray film and CT scan (as part of a PET/CT scan) showed multiple lung nodules and a left pleural effusion. A PET scan (as part of a PET/CT scan) revealed no uptake i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bagga S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of unsuspected urine extravasation first detected by radionuclide scintigraphy are presented with subsequent confirmation by CT and, retrograde pyelograms. A renal study done to rule out acute transplant rejection demonstrates gallbladder uptake which was initially thought to be consistent with urine extra...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bocchini T,Williams W,Patton D

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intrasplenic pancreatic pseudocyst may mimic a subcapsular splenic hematoma. Misdiagnosis of this entity may have serious consequences. Particular care should be taken when a patient presents with a cystic mass in the region of the spleen and a history of chronic alcohol abuse, regardless of the presence or absence...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wallner RJ,Basara BE,Dadparvar S,Croll MN,Brady LW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case history of a patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is described. The underlaying disease proved to be essential thrombocytosis. Congential elliptocytosis was also present. The value of the conventional liver scan, percutaneous splenoportoscintigraphy and isotopic phlebography of the inferior vena cava in th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Thijs LG,Heidendal GA,Huijgens PC,Mol JJ,Verkuyl M

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 58-year-old man was referred for selective internal radiation therapy for locally advanced unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. Intra-arterial particle perfusion scintigraphy was performed with SPECT/CT following intra-arterial injection of Tc macroaggregated albumin. Angiography demonstrated a hepatic falciform a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Patel D,Le K,Chaganti J,Mansberg R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) bone scans of the lumbar spine were evaluated in the management of patients with low back pain and suspected spondylolysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty-three patients (mean age, 30 years) with high clinical suspicion of pars interarticularis defects were incl...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dutton JA,Hughes SP,Peters AM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old asymptomatic active duty military man underwent a screening chest x-ray secondary to a history of tuberculosis exposure. His chest x-ray showed no features of tuberculosis infection but unexpectedly revealed a markedly enlarged cardiac silhouette. Echocardiography demonstrated a large pericardial effusio...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Atkinson C,Banks K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of a simple, noninvasive, isotope scanning technique for the determination of relative portal blood flow and detection of portal hypertension is described. Using this technique the presence of portal hypertension was demonstrated in seven of nine patients known to have elevated portal venous pressure. By contr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hesdorffer CS,Bezwoda WR,Danilewitz MD,Esser JD,Tobias M

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Image quality (IQ) of PET in voluminous body regions can be limited, which impairs the assessment of small metastatic lesions. Time-of-flight (TOF) reconstruction algorithm may deliver an increase of spatial resolution. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of TOF on IQ, lesion detection rate, le...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hausmann D,Bittencourt LK,Attenberger UI,Sertdemir M,Weidner A,Büsing KA,Brade J,Wenz F,Schoenberg SO,Dinter DJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to establish early and precise methods for evaluating the effect of secondary chemotherapy in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, both the clinical course of 3 women treated with gemcitabine-based secondary chemotherapy and the potential for early and accurate evaluation of the secondary chemotherapeutic ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tsuyoshi H,Morishita F,Orisaka M,Okazawa H,Yoshida Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary calcification can be detected easily using Tc-99m phosphate compounds. Lung uptake of Tc-99m bone imaging agents was observed in two patients after liver transplantation. Transient hypercalcemia due to calcium infusion during hepatic transplantation may be responsible for the pulmonary calcification. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Raisis IP,Park CH,Yang SL,Maddrey W

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease with limited therapeutic options. As a neuroendocrine tumor, MTC expresses somatostatin receptors, and therefore, somatostatin-labeled radiopharmaceuticals could be used to treat patients with MTC. OBJECTIVE:The aims of this s...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vaisman F,Rosado de Castro PH,Lopes FP,Kendler DB,Pessoa CH,Bulzico DA,de Carvalho Leal D,Vilhena B,Vaisman M,Carneiro M,Corbo R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of rest gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and intraventricular synchronism, to identify heart failure (HF) patients most likely to experience cardiac events. METHODS:We studied 165 patients with left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 4...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Peix A,Karell J,Rodríguez L,Cabrera LO,Padrón K,Carrillo R,Mena E,Fernández Y

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of focal decreased skeletal uptake with In-111 labeled white blood cells representing Paget's disease is reported. Although uncommon, other causes for skeletal photon deficient areas using In-111 white blood cells have been described. To the authors' knowledge, this finding representing Paget's disease has not ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Borin BF,Abghari R,Sarkissian A

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REPORT:Autonomous functioning thyroid nodules (AFTN), defined as "hot nodules" at thyroid scan, are often cured by radioiodine treatment. The aim of our study was to investigate the long-term outcome in patients treated with an 131I calculated dose, to identify a possible "size-tailored" dose, and to sim...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ronga G,Filesi M,D'Apollo R,Toteda M,Di Nicola AD,Colandrea M,Travascio L,Vestri AR,Montesano T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of unilobar or bilobar pathology is disproportionately high in patients with duplication of the gallbladder. The results of ultrasound and Tc-99m DISIDA studies in one case of gallbladder duplication are presented. An awareness of gallbladder anomalies may improve the accuracy of hepatobiliary imaging by...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： McDonald KL,Lwin T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Freehand single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (fh-SPECT) for optical tracked 3-dimensional radioactivity mapping raises popularity for sentinel node biopsy and other radio-guided procedures. However, the device seems to be complex, requiring both training and a standardized scan protocol. Therefor...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pouw B,de Wit-van der Veen LJ,Stokkel MP,Valdés Olmos RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old white man was diagnosed with a testicular, metastatic germ cell tumor. The patient was evaluated with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and coregistered computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) as well as a contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) of the abdomen and pelvis. Serologic tests were performed. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Koff SG,Sterbis JR,Davison JM,Montilla-Soler JL

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old girl with a history of complicated cystic fibrosis was hospitalized for pulmonary exacerbation with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and severe right upper lobe bronchiectasis diagnosed with chest radiograph and CT. She was started on itraconazole during the hospitalization in attempt to decrease ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rodriguez K,Siegel A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) syndrome caused by a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET) of the pancreas detected by PET/CT using different tracers. A 43-year-old female patient with Cushing syndrome (CS) by suspected ectopic ACTH secretion underwent a 68Ga-DOTANOC and a 18F-FDG P...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Treglia G,Salomone E,Petrone G,Giaccari A,Rindi G,Rufini V

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00