SPECT imaging with Tl-201 and Ga-67 in myocardial sarcoidosis.

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：PURPOSE:Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has been described as a minimally invasive method for lymph node staging in patients with a penile carcinoma and nonpalpable inguinal nodes in national and international guidelines of involved professional societies. However, this method is rarely used. The aim of this study wa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lützen U,Zuhayra M,Marx M,Zhao Y,Knüpfer S,Colberg C,Jünemann KP,Naumann CM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is an endemic disease in the Middle East. Its incidence in Kuwait has increased during the last 5 years. Bone and joint involvement causes major symptoms and disabilities. Radionuclide bone scans are more sensitive than radiographs in detecting these lesions. The aim of this study is to describe the abnorm...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bahar RH,Al-Suhaili AR,Mousa AM,Nawaz MK,Kaddah N,Abdel-Dayem HM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal perfusion and function can be determined by renography using Tc-99m DTPA. However, the high dose of tracer necessary for scintiangiography may result in inaccurate syringe-count determinations when measured by the gamma camera necessary for calculating the glomerular filtration rate by a camera technique. This r...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gates GF

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased bone activity in the sacroiliac joints has been shown to be a sensitive method for detecting sacroiliitis in brucellosis. Because symmetrically increased uptake usually is difficult to detect, this study was performed to improve the sensitivity by quantifying sacroiliac joint uptake. Quantification was accom...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： El-Desouki MI,Benjamin RS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aims to investigate the feasibility of using simultaneous breast MRI and PET to assess the synergy of MR pharmacokinetic and fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) uptake data to characterize tumor aggressiveness in terms of metastatic burden and Ki67 status. METHODS:Twelve consecutive patients unde...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Margolis NE,Moy L,Sigmund EE,Freed M,McKellop J,Melsaether AN,Kim SG

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggressive natural killer cell leukemia (ANKL) is a rare malignant disorder of mature NK cells characterized by aggressive clinical course and poor outcome. The commonly involved sites are peripheral blood, bone marrow, liver, and spleen, but any organ can show involvement. We report a case of ANKL diagnosed and asses...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Park JA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence of an organic cause is low and most of the detected genitourinary anomalies are not responsible for enuresis, a simple, noninvasive screening test is preferable in the analysis of children with enuresis. Extension of standard radionuclide renography as a method of screening the upper as well as ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： van der Vis-Melsen MJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man presented cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath for 2 weeks and fever for 4 days. A contrast chest CT revealed a large right pulmonary artery filling defect, suggestive of pulmonary embolism that failed to respond to anticoagulation therapy. FDG PET/CT was performed to evaluate possible malignan...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Li J,Zhao Q,He L,Zhuang X,Li F

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Limping is a frequent occurrence in children and may be caused by various conditions, including trauma, inflammation, infection, and malignancy. Nontraumatic avascular necrosis of the tarsal bones should be included in the differential diagnosis. Accumulated data have supported the superiority of bone scans to radiogr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Khoury J,Jerushalmi J,Loberant N,Shtarker H,Militianu D,Keidar Z

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality. There are several published studies on the evolution and prognosis of patients with ICM. However, reports on the therapeutic management in clinical practice are scarce. The aim of this study was to analyze coronary revascularization (...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Romero-Farina G,Candell-Riera J,Aguadé-Bruix S,Ferreira-Gonzalez I,Igual A,García-Dorado D

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Recently, myocardial blood flow quantitation with dynamic SPECT has been validated to enhance the detection of multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) and conclude equivocal SPECT myocardial perfusion study. This advance opened an important clinical application to utilize the tool in guiding CAD management for area ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chen LC,Jong BH,Lin SC,Ku CT,Chen IJ,Chen YK,Hsu B

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Measurement of relative renal function in azotemic patients can be misleading due to elevated background activity and delayed renal concentration of radiotracer. When there is delayed excretion of the tracer and obvious splenic or hepatic activity superimposed over one of the kidneys, it often is advantageous to delay...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sennewald K,Taylor A Jr

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The authors' goal was to determine whether the prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients with matching ventilation-perfusion (V-Q) defects and chest radiographic opacities differs depending on the degree of perfusion deficit (absent versus decreased). METHODS:The authors performed a retrospective analysis o...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kim CK,Worsley DF,Alavi A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The effects of menopause on bone mineral density (BMD) in women with endemic fluorosis were investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Eighty healthy Turkish women who lived in and around the city of Isparta were selected randomly and enrolled in this study. They were separated into four groups: group 1, 20 premenopa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yildiz M,Oral B

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was to evaluate the relationship among FDG uptake in the pituitary gland (FDGp), FDG uptake in the thyroid gland (FDGt), and serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in patients with diffuse FDGt incidentally noted on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). PATIENTS AND METH...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jeong YH,Kim D,Lee JW,Rhee Y,Nam KH,Yun M,Kim CK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans is a rare cutaneous tumor that is locally aggressive and has a high rate of recurrence after surgical excision. The tumor grows slowly, typically over years. On rare occasions, metastasis to distant sites (especially the lung) or regional lymph nodes may occur. Here, we present F-FDG PE...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Suman S,Sharma P,Jain TK,Sahoo MK,Bal C,Kumar R

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of F-FDG uptake of portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT) for predicting progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:The study retrospectively included 166 HCC patients with PV...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lee JW,Hwang SH,Kim DY,Han KH,Yun M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：:I-131 metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging was performed in 38 patients with advanced neuroblastoma. Abnormal images were found in patients with elevations of urinary vanillylmandelic acid and dopamine and high serum neuron-specific enolase levels. Normal or minimal elevation of markers was seen in patients with neg...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yeh SD,Helson L,Benua RS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Dual radionuclide imaging of the neck (Tc-99m pertechnetate and TI-201 thallous chloride) was performed in 22 patients with chemical evidence of hyperparathyroidism (elevated blood calcium and parathormone [PTH] levels). Of these, 19 of 22 had localization of a TI-201 "excess" area on radiothallium-radiotechnetium sub...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gupta SM,Belsky JL,Spencer RP,Frias J,Kotch P,Halpin T,Herrera NE

更新日期：1985-04-01 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