Incidental detection of bilateral elastofibroma dorsi with F-18 FDG PET/CT.

abstract：:In 14 patients with ophthalmoplegia plus Tc-99m hexamethylpropylene amineoxime (HMPAO) brain SPECT imaging was performed. Three patients showed bilateral parieto-occipital hypoperfusions, and two patients had left parietal defects (one with an additional right temporal lesion). Two patients presented with occipital hy...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Grünwald F,Zierz S,Broich K,Dewes W,Böker T,Biersack HJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Gallium-68 (Ga-68) DOTA-1-NaI3-octreotide (DOTA-NOC) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) is increasingly used for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), often found primarily in the pancreas. However, physiologic uptake of DOTA-NOC has been described in the uncinate process of the pancreas. We ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Krausz Y,Rubinstein R,Appelbaum L,Mishani E,Orevi M,Fraenkel M,Tshori S,Glaser B,Bocher M,Salmon A,Chisin R,Gross DJ,Freedman N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The sensitivity of sestamibi scanning is 85% for breast lesions that measure >or=1 cm in diameter. This detection technique complements mammography and clinical examination and can benefit patients with very dense breast tissue. An innovation in nuclear imaging uses a lead marker for localization. MATERIALS AN...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Coover LR,Malaspina PJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 61-year-old man with elevated serum prostate-specific antigen level of 10.5 ng/mL who had undergone prior negative standard transrectal ultrasound biopsy at another institution. He was referred to our medical center for evaluation and underwent a clinical 3-T multiparametric MRI and a research protocol ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jadvar H,Chen K,Ukimura O

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:A 51-year-old man with a palpable neck mass and elevated parathyroid hormone was referred to our department for parathyroid scintigraphy. After injection of 740 MBq 99mTc-MIBI, a dual-phase scan was obtained, which revealed a persistent and intense focal hyperactivity in the left side of the neck (compatible w...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pirayesh E,Tavakoli M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) by a malignant tumor depends on the blood glucose level. The authors present a striking case that illustrates the importance of blood glucose measurement in F-18 FDG positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging in a patient with a solitary pulmonary nodule. With t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ojha B,Bartley SC,Gundlapalli S,Mountz JM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with bilateral adrenal hyperplasia, due to the ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) syndrome, received a 3-month course of treatment with 1,1 dichloro-2(o-chlorophenyl)-2-(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (o,p' DDD), which caused adrenal hypofunction requiring steroid therapy. Eleven months later, Cushing's synd...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sparagana M,Ackerman L

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intraparenchymal lung tumor exhibiting the histopathologic and immunophenotypic characteristics of an intracranial meningioma is described. The tumor presented as a solitary asymptomatic pulmonary nodule with increased fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on positron emission tomography. After right upper lobectomy, benign ps...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cura M,Smoak W,Dala R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine-123 MIBG is a norepinephrine analog which can be used to image the sympathetic innervation of the heart. The authors report a patient with myotonic dystrophy whose I-123 MIBG SPECT revealed accelerated washout of I-123 MIBG from infero-posterior and a part of lateral wall, although Tl-201 SPECT showed no abnorm...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Machida K,Honda N,Mamiya T,Takahashi T,Kamano T,Kashimada A,Inoue Y,Kinoshita M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review was made of the records of 24 consecutive trauma patients (aged 55-94 years) who had under gone radiographic examinations and a positive bone image of the femur or pelvis. There was considerable discordance between the radiographs and the bone images. Initially, 25% of the radiographs were interpreted as posi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Slavin JD Jr,Mathews J,Spencer RP

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：:Radionuclide angiography (RNA) and cholescintigraphy were performed prospectively in 300 patients with suspected acute cholecystitis (AC). Of 79 patients with positive RNA, 63 had AC (80%). Positive RNA was seen in 23 of 26 cases with gangrenous AC (88%) while 12 of the 26 had a positive "rim" sign (46%). All 12 patie...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Colletti PM,Cirimelli KM,Radin DR,Chandrasoma P,Ralls PW,Siegel ME

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examples of Ga-67 and Tl-201 scans in AIDS patients performed at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York are presented. Use of these methods is the adopted approach at this institution in AIDS patients for localizing sites of tumor or infection involvement. A Ga-67 scan is the most common nuclear medicin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Turoglu HT,Akisik MF,Naddaf SY,Omar WS,Kempf JS,Abdel-Dayem HM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma of the cervix is a rare malignancy that has a poor prognosis due to early lymphatic and hematogenous spread. We herein report a case of a 27- year-old woman who was referred for initial staging of a neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma with previous unremarkable structural imagin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Damian A,Lago G,Rossi S,Alonso O,Engler H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-year-old man, who had been diagnosed with small lymphocytic lymphoma with cervical localization, underwent F-FDG PET/CT with iodinated contrast medium due to the appearance of cervical swelling suspected of illness relapse. PET/CT revealed intense F-FDG uptake in multiple cervical and subdiaphragmatic lymph nodes...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lavalle M,Minordi LM,Hohaus S,Manfredi R,Rufini V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients who underwent nuclear medicine bone scanning were reviewed to determine the incidence of bone scan abnormalities associated with hepatoblastoma. Of these, six patients had abnormal bone scan findings--four with focal involvement. Correlating plain radiographs and/or follow-up nuclear bone scans were av...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Archer D,Babyn P,Gilday D,Greenberg MA

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cavernous hemangioma of the liver presented as an area of increased activity on an isotope bone scan. A review of the literature fails to reveal any previous reports of this phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Burkhalter JL,Morano JU,Patel BR

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of unilateral septic sacro-iliitis are reported. Importance of the anterior view of sacroiliac joints on the radionuclide bone scan is stressed. Limitation of the posterior view in evaluation of sacroiliac joints may lead to misdiagnosis and false negative results in unilateral sacro-illiac disease. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kumar R,Balachandran S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who had active pulmonary tuberculosis and was receiving anti-tuberculosis treatment. High-grade fever and a right-sided pleural effusion had recently developed. Results of a Ga-67 scan were negative for any focal infection in the chest. Fluorin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Goswami GK,Jana S,Santiago JF,Buyukdereli G,Salem SS,Heiba S,Abdel-Dayem HM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary abnormalities located within the spine from 75 bone images with Tc-99m MDP were reviewed. For the sake of convenience, patients were grouped in three classes of age: 15-50, 51-65, and 66-90 years. In 67 cases, the diagnosis was apparent from clinical studies, x-ray examinations, or biopsies. In eight cases, n...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Thivolle P,Mathieu L,Mathieu P,Raynal M,Bouyoucef SE,Damideaux J,Vignon E,Berger M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This report highlights the presence of extensive cerebral dysfunction in a patient with cerebral mitochondrial disorder. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The patient is a 10-year-old girl with a history of hemiparesis, encephalopathy, developmental delay, and seizures. She underwent 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic im...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Narla VV,Muthukrishnan A,Mountz JM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal radionuclide accumulation of Tc-99m sulfur colloid (SC) and tc-99m macroaggregated albumin (MAA) in the liver has been reported in both inferior and superior vena caval obstruction. We studied a patient with uniform radionuclide accumulation of Tc-99m MAA in the liver during lung scintigraphy. In this patient, b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Desai AG,Park CH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a sebaceous carcinoma is presented. This carcinoma of the skin appendages requires diagnosis by histopathology because the clinical appearance is often atypical. Because of the frequency of metastases to local lymph nodes and bone, a careful physical examination and appropriate radiologic/scintigraphic exami...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Verlooy H,Mortelmans L,Schiepers C,De Roo M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal scintigraphic features of 111In pentetreotide include uptake in the pituitary, thyroid, liver, spleen, kidneys, urinary bladder, gallbladder, and bowel. In premenopausal women, faint activity can be seen in the breasts. We present 2 cases of symmetrical, markedly increased mammary uptake. Our hypothesis to ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Van Eeckhoudt SF,Teunissen JJ,Kwekkeboom DJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of isolated right ventricular infarction (RVI) is described. The lack of clinical and electrocardiographic findings characteristic of isolated RVI makes this pathology a diagnostic challenge. The role of the radionuclide scintigraphic procedures as a single possible tool for the diagnosis of isolated RVI i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Garty I,Antonelli D,Barzilay J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old man with sarcoidosis showed high F-FDG uptake in the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes on F-FDG PET, suggesting active inflammation. F-fluoro-boronophenylalanine (FBPA) PET showed no significant uptake in the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes, suggesting its cancer specificity as a substrate of L-type am...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Watabe T,Shimamoto H,Naka S,Kamiya T,Murakami S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16 year-old boy presented with a firm mass within the left thigh. Ga-6 7 citrate and bone scintigraphy revealed soft tissue radiotracer accumulation within the mass lesion. Radiographs and xerography of the left thigh revealed calcification within the soft tissue mass typical of myositis ossificans. The patient's cl...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Moreno AJ,Yedinak MA,Spicer MJ,Turnbull GL,Byrd BF,Brown TJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Tc-99m RBC scintigraphy is favored by many investigators because it provides the ability to image the abdomen over a prolonged period of time, thereby allowing identification of delayed bleeding sites that are frequently encountered due to the intermittent nature of gastrointestinal bleeding. The authors describe a ca...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： el-Shirbiny A,Fernandez R,Zuckier LS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of PET in septicemia for showing its source and possible metastatic infection has been demonstrated. We describe the diagnosis on PET/CT of a spontaneous corpus cavernosum abscess in a 64-year-old man presenting with Streptococcus constellatus septicemia, in whom the clinical diagnosis had been elusive for...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vermeulen S,Walgraeve N,De Geeter F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00