PET/CT demonstration and monitoring of thoracic and abdominal wall mesothelioma.

abstract：:Three patients with primary breast lymphoma were reported. All patients had rapidly growing breast masses and these masses showed nonspecific findings in mammography and on ultrasound. They resembled phyllodes tumor or invasive ductal carcinomas. Ga-67 scintigraphy showed intense accumulation was seen in all of the ly...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Koizumi M,Aruga A,Yamada K

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old woman with metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma who had been on nivolumab immunotherapy for 10 months was referred for a FDG PET scan to monitor disease progress. New bilateral mediastinal and hilar FDG-avid lymphadenopathy was noted. Pathology on subsequent mediastinal nodal biopsy showed well-formed e...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang M,Schembri G

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On In-111 WBC images, diffuse homogeneous uptake of the radiopharmaceutical should be present throughout the liver. The authors present a case of a febrile patient with polycystic liver disease in whom the normal diffuse uptake was not seen. Instead, the images demonstrated focal areas of uptake, which suggested infec...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Even-Sapir E,Barnes DC,Iles SE

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone metastasis developing after differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is common, and in most cases, this condition leads to osteolysis. However, treatment of bone metastases in DTC patients is a great challenge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of percutaneous osteoplasty (POP) c...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Song HJ,Wu CG,Xue YL,Xu YH,Qiu ZL,Luo QY

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:A 61-year-old-man with persistent anemia was referred for a Tc-99m-labeled red blood cell (RBC) scan to detect any source of gastrointestinal bleeding. RBC scintigraphy revealed a hypervascular mass in the left renal fossa with functional loss in that kidney, suggesting the possibility of a renal cell carcinoma (RCC)....

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cortes J,Alonso JI,Ruiz-Oliva F,Alvarez S,Ormijana JS,Caton B,Alcorta P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal domain of fibronectin has a fibrin binding site and a site for covalent cross-linking to fibrin. This fibrin binding domain was isolated from human recombinant fibronectin and labeled with In-111; the final molecular weight was 12 kD. It was applied to a pilot study of 62 patients; 30 who were thoug...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rosenthall L,Leclerc J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edema of the lower extremities is a difficult clinical problem. It can be due to stasis, obstruction of the lymphatic channels, increased production of lymph beyond the drainage capacity of the lymphatic vessels. It is often difficult to differentiate between these varieties. Lymphoscintigraphy was performed on 164 pa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nawaz MK,Hamad MM,Abdel-Dayem HM,Sadek S,Eklof BG

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mammographic screening has led to the identification of more women with nonpalpable breast cancer, many of them to be treated with breast-preserving surgery. To accomplish radical tumor excision, adequate localization techniques such as radioactive seed localization (RSL) are required. For RSL, a radioactive...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pouw B,de Wit-van der Veen LJ,van Duijnhoven F,Rutgers EJ,Stokkel MP,Valdés Olmos RA,Vrancken Peeters MJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：AIM:The aim of the study was to evaluate if there is a prognostic importance of pretreatment Tc-MAA uptake of liver lesion of patients who received Y selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) treatment for hepatocellular cancer (HCC) or not. METHODS:Nineteen patients (5 female and 14 male patients; mean age, 64.5 ± ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kucuk ON,Soydal C,Araz M,Ozkan E,Aras G

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:We report the case of a 40-year-old man with radiographically silent pulmonary metastases of papillary thyroid cancer discovered during I-131 scintigraphy following total thyroidectomy performed 10 years after unilateral lobectomy. The residual lobe was histologically normal. After a dose of 11.1 GBq (300 mCi), there ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Boughattas S,Hassine H,Chatti K,Driss N,Essabbah H

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:Renal biopsy is crucial for management of lupus nephritis. However, it is invasive and can cause bleeding and infection. In our previous study, we developed a semiquantitative method for gallium renal imaging and demonstrated a good correlation between the left kidney-to-spine ratio (K/S ratio) and the results ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tsai SC,Hsieh TY,Huang PW,Lin WY

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efforts of the Vascular Quality Initiative of the Society for Vascular Surgery and its regional groups, including the Vascular Study Group of New England, have been very helpful in furthering medical knowledge in multiple areas of vascular surgery and hopefully in improving quality and safety. One of the areas foc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether rapid, dynamic SPECT imaging with Tc-99m labeled red blood cells was technically feasible and of value in the detection of cavernous hemangiomas of the liver. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The acquisition protocol for Tc-99m labeled red blood cell imaging of hepatic hemangiomas was modified with s...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Siegel A,Mazurek R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism before and after the recanalization of the occluded sinus were evaluated using O-15 positron emission tomography (PET) scanning in a 21-year-old woman with superior sagittal sinus thrombosis. During the initial presentation, there was increased regional cerebral blood vo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kawai N,Shindou A,Masada T,Tamiya T,Nagao S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old woman initially presented with the acute onset of low back pain after gardening. Plain film at that time was reported as showing Scheurmann's disease of the lumbar spine. The pain resolved slowly, but recurred acutely after minimal trauma 5 months later. Bone scintigraphy revealed increased uptake in L4 ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Crawford BA,van der Wall H

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a disease that is widely distributed in underdeveloped tropical regions, with cases also occurring in the United States. The bone scan findings in a patient with leprosy who had developed a reactional state of the disease, erythema nodosum leprosum, are presented. His scan showed bilaterally symmetrical dou...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Datz FL

更新日期：1987-03-01 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：:Prostate cancer cells have abundant expression of the cell surface protein prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). In recent years, PET radioligands detecting this protein has therefore gained substantial interest in prostate cancer staging. It turned out that PSMA expression can be evident in both malignant and be...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pedersen MA,Bouchelouche K,Vendelbo MH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old patient with severe hypokalemia (approximately 1.7 mEq/L) and muscular weakness had a very high serum renin level. No renin-producing tumor was found and she was diagnosed with Bartter Syndrome The parathyroid hormone level was high due to concomitant renal calcium loss. Tc-99m-DTPA captopril scintigraph...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zelmanovitz F,Fregapani JA,Zelmanovitz T,Spiro BL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate whether a prolonged infusion of Tc-99m sestamibi allows for visualization of viable myocardium in areas of hypoperfused myocardium, 25 patients were prospectively studied. Each patient was imaged four times in two consecutive days in the following manner: day 1:1) immediately after injection of Tl-201 at r...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Miron SD,Finkelhor R,Bahler R,Sodee DB,Bellon EM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver imaging was performed in two patients with traumatic right hemidiaphragmatic hernia. It has elucidated the cause of obliteration of the right hemidiaphragmatic shadow on the chest x-ray. These cases are illustrative of the usefulness of liver imaging in the diagnosis of traumatic right hemidiaphragmatic hernia a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Suzuki Y

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tl-201 and Tc-99m subtraction imaging is a well-established technique for detecting parathyroid adenomas. We report a case of a brown tumor of the upper sternum mimicking an ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma on Tl-201 and Tc-99m subtraction imaging in a patient with hyperparathyroidism. This brown tumor showed T...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kumar R,Gupta R,Malhotra A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costosternoclavicular region is not a common bone metastasis site, and symmetrical involvement is even rarer. Increased tracer uptake in the manubrium and sternoclavicular joints usually gives the typical "bull-horn" appearance seen in SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis). Herei...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ni J,Tang P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of ectopic Cushing syndrome is challenging. The best imaging approach for localizing ectopic ACTH-secreting tumors is not defined. Here, we report on a 68-year-old woman with new-onset hypertension (>200/90 mm Hg) who was referred to our institution with suspicion of ectopic ACTH-secreting tumor for further ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bluemel C,Lapa C,Mottok A,Hahner S,Herrmann K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of follicular thyroid cancer appearing as an autonomous nodule on Tc-99m and I-123 thyroid scintigraphy is presented in addition to a pertinent review of the literature. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Intenzo CM,Park CH,Cohen SN

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00