F-18 FDG PET/CT in the management of thyroid cancer.

abstract：:Anthracyclines are one of the most commonly used and potent chemotherapeutic agents. Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) is one common anthracycline used to treat many solid tumors including breast, sarcomas, gynecologic and hematological malignancies, such as leukemias and lymphomas. However, its use is often limited due to dos...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Aiken MJ,Suhag V,Garcia CA,Acio E,Moreau S,Priebat DA,Chennupati SP,Van Nostrand D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become a popular alternative to traditional open cholecystectomy for uncomplicated, acute cholecystitis. At some centers, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is already the more frequently performed procedure. The presence or suspicion of common bile duct (CBD) stones or obstruction may neces...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nagle CE,Murphy J

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:(177)Lu-labeled ethylenediamine-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis methylene phosphonic acid ((177)Lu-EDTMP), was used to palliate metastatic bone pain as a new bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical. In this phase II study, we assessed the efficacy and safety of (177)Lu-EDTMP for bone pain palliation in patients with breast cancer ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yuan J,Liu C,Liu X,Wang Y,Kuai D,Zhang G,Zaknun JJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:A case of acute cholecystitis in an immunosuppressed patient with hepatocellular dysfunction is reported. The diagnostic dilemmas posed by the lack of specific sonographic findings, the possibility of acute gallbladder disease without early cystic duct obstruction, and the absence of clear guidelines for the interpret...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Assi Z,Bohnen NI,Shapiro B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chordoma is a rare slow-growing neoplasm of neuroectodermal origin, which frequently recurs after removal and has the potential to metastasize. We present the case of a 53-year-old man with metastasizing chordoma who underwent F-FDG and Ga-DOTA-TATE PET/CT for restaging of disease and for evaluation of targeted radion...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Derlin T,Sohns JM,Hueper K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

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：:After a total or near total thyroidectomy and radioiodine ablation therapy for differential thyroid cancer (DTC), routine follow-up methods are (131)I or (131)I whole-body scanning (WBS) as well as serum thyroglobulin (Tg) and anti-thyroglobulin (anti-Tg) levels. We describe a case of a 41-year-old woman with follicul...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Aliyev A,Ylmaz S,Ozhan M,Asa S,Halac M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and no known malignancies was evaluated for back pain. MR examination showed lumbar spine compression fractures, and an F-FDG PET/CT scan was requested to assess for skeletal metastatic disease and potential detection of a primary neoplasm. The PET/CT examin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sinha P,Sinha S,Schlehr E,Schlehr JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case that demonstrates the relationship between malignancy and pulmonary throboembolic disease is presented. Pulmonary embolism, which was diagnosed on a ventilation-perfusion lung scan, initiated a search for the etiology of this condition. Normal examination of the deep venous system of the legs prompted further i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Patel N,Krasnow AZ,Collier BD,Hellman RS,Isitman AT

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased participation in sports by the general public has led to an increase in sports-induced injuries, including stress fractures, shin splints, arthritis, and a host of musculotendinous maladies. Bone scintigraphy with Tc-99m MDP has been used with increasing frequency in detecting stress fractures, but this stud...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Brill DR

更新日期：1983-03-01 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 usefulness of grey scale ultrasonography in association with radionuclide imaging in the evaluation of thyroid nodules is discussed. Nodules were classified in five categories, according to the magnitude of the internal echoes (echogenicity). The assessment of neoplasms in each of these categories is reported in 1...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Espinasse P,Espinasse D

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case in which a radionuclide hepatobiliary image was falsely indicative of cystic duct obstruction in a patient with an indwelling cholecystostomy tube and an externalized gallbladder-duodenal stent. Cystic duct patency was demonstrated radiographically shortly before and after the radionuclide st...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zagoria RJ,Cowan RJ,Dyer RB,Herrera M

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma is a rare malignant tumor arising within the melanocytes of the skin. The authors report a case of primary and metastatic malignant melanoma revealed with Tc-99m MIBI in one patient. Tc-99m MIBI images showed uptake in possible malignant melanoma skin lesions of the left calf and great toe of a 73-y...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jang Kim S,Won Seok J,Ju Kim I,Ki Kim Y

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：: A 50-year-old-man with abdominal pain, who had undergone aortic aneurysm reconstructive surgery (aortic graft) 3 years before, was admitted to the hospital. A CT scan showed findings suggestive of perigraft infection. Scintigraphy with 99mTc-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO)-labeled leukocytes confirmed the dia...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cortés J,Villaverde J,Garrido M,Pombo M,Ruibal A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoid is a subtype of neuroendocrine tumor, a rare group of tumors that are known to express somatostatin receptor 2. Ga-DOTATATE is a somatostatin analog that is specific for somatostatin receptor 2 and therefore allows visualization of neuroendocrine tumors. We present 2 cases of primary multifocal small bowel c...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Clark M,Nathan M,Broski SM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined regional cerebral blood flow by using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT studies in a patient who received a gunshot wound to the brain. Although the presence of the retained bullet's fragments adversely affected the quality of CT images and contraindicated MRI studies, the SPECT examination did not have the same...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Valle G,Bonetti MG,Ciritella P,Di Fazio P,Barbano F,Perrone E

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The speed of Tc-99m DTPA/HMPAO radioaerosol clearance from the lungs that is represented as a slope from lungs to blood was measured in 23 male normal controls using commercial lung radioaerosol delivery units in the supine position in order to avoid the influences of gravity. The right lung was selected and three reg...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kao CH,Lin HT,Yu SL,Wang SJ,Yeh SH

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aim to retrospectively evaluate the impact of hormone therapy (HT) on FDG avidity of metastatic lesions in patients with breast cancer (BC) undergoing PET/CT. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Three hundred eight patients with BC were scanned with PET/CT at 2 Italian institutions (mean time from diagnosis 4 yrs, rang...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Evangelista L,Redana S,Racca M,Geuna E,Vinante L,Zago G,De Carolis V,Ghiotto C,Saladini G,Varetto T

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man with a pacemaker who was admitted for evaluation of fever was found to have a redundant loop of the ventricular lead and a vegetation attached to it. An FDG PET/CT revealed a focus of FDG uptake at the ventricular lead loop. Surgical extraction of the pacemaker device confirmed a Propionibacterium ac...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gorospe L,Miguelena-Hycka J,Martín-García M,Ajuria-Illarramendi O,Almeida-Aróstegui NA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary artery involvement can occur in about half of the patients suffering Takayasu arteritis. Increased FDG activity in the aorta and its main branches in patients with Takayasu arteritis on PET/CT had been well-reported. However, the FDG PET/CT appearance of pulmonary artery involvement in Takayasu arteritis is ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y,Tong G,Wen Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign neurofibromas undergo sarcomatous transformation in approximately 5% of patients with neurofibromatosis type I. The clinical and radiologic diagnosis of sarcomatous change remains difficult. Positron emission tomography with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose is a method to assess increased glucose metabolism in malignant...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Solomon SB,Semih Dogan A,Nicol TL,Campbell JN,Pomper MG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:False-positive liver scans may occur due to intrinsic hepatic anatomy, extrinsic impression on the liver from adjacent structures, or external attenuation of gamma rays. However, reports of false-positive scans due to external attenuation by pulmonary nodules are very few, and postoperative changes in liver scintigrap...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ueno K,Kabuto H,Rikimaru S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gamma camera method with no blood sampling assesses differential renal function based on initial renal uptake, and requires background correction. The effect of background correction on estimates of initial renal uptake was compared on renograms using Tc-99m MAG3 and Tc-99m DTPA renographies in 14 patients. Renal co...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue Y,Machida K,Honda N,Takahashi T,Mamiya T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old woman presented with a painless left upper neck swelling for more than a week. Fibrolaryngoscope examination suggested nasopharyngeal carcinoma. FDG PET/CT was performed for an initial staging, which revealed intense activity in the soft tissue mass in the nasopharynx and cervical lymph nodes. However, b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Chen Y,Huang Z,Cai L,Wu J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Considerable discrepancies are observed between clinical staging and pathological staging after surgical resection in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In this study, we examined the relationships between tumor SUVs on FDG PET/CT and aggressive pathological features in resected ESCC patie...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lim CH,Park YJ,Shin M,Cho YS,Choi JY,Lee KH,Hyun SH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unusual features of iodine-131 uptake during thyroid cancer scintigraphy may lead to a false-positive diagnosis of residual or recurrent malignancy and associated metastasis. Radiographic or cross-sectional imaging correlation should help to differentiate truly functioning thyroid lesions from physiological or artifac...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nguyen BD,Roarke MC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are occasional reports of a hiatal hernia demonstrating thoracic uptake on I-131 scintigraphy. This is a cause of a potential false-positive appearance mimicking a pulmonary or mediastinal metastasis. Hiatal hernia is 1 of a number of causes of false-positive I-131 whole-body scans. Although previous case report...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Freeman M,Roach P,Robinson B,Shields M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with the general population, solid organ transplant recipients, including renal transplant patients, who are under long-term immunosuppression, present with up to a 120-fold increased risk of developing skin cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the renal transplant population with prior long-term dialysis, th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nguyen BD,Ram PC,Roarke MC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00