Unexpected diagnosis of thyroid storm in a young child referred for urgent lung perfusion imaging.

abstract：:We present the case of a 61-year-old woman with fever and acute meningitis. Clinical evaluation revealed maculopapular rash, right gluteus cellulitis, and centered retinal hemorrhages. In the intensive care unit, persistent Staphylococcus bacteremia was detected. However, transesophageal echocardiography did not revea...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： García Vicente AM,Villar García M,Blanch Sancho JJ,Soriano Castrejón Á

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m pertechnetate radionuclide scrotal scanning was performed on nine hospitalized boys with anaphylactoid purpura and acute scrotal tenderness. Scrotal involvement in anaphylactoid purpura is generally a part of the basic pathological process (i.e., vasculitis). Sometimes testicular torsion could not be excluded b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Melloul MM,Garty BZ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chest radiograph performed in a 61-year-old woman to evaluate cough showed a large mass in the right lung. On chest CT images, the mass was measured approximately 8.5 cm. Malignancy was considered, and bone scintigraphy was performed to assess possible osseous metastases. The bone scan images demonstrated increased tr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhao L,Liu J,Li Q,Wang HQ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-phase bone scintigraphy is sometimes of great value in the detection of uncharacteristic metastases and assists the management of patients in terms of primary focus detection. While evaluating the skeletal system with whole-body bone scintigraphy, other system pathologies may also be detected incidentally. In th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Çayir D,Bozkurt M,Gültekin SS,Karaçalioğlu AÖ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many lessons relevant to burnout from studying the literature on positive psychology. For example, resilience can be taught. A major portion of resilience and fighting burnout is finding meaning in work. Positive thinking, optimism, positive self-talk, and ways to diminish stress and increase happiness and e...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 25-year-old woman presented with neutropenic fever after chemotherapy for the relapse of acute biphenotypic leukemia. Gallium-67 scintigraphy for the detection of infectious foci demonstrated a unique pattern of numerous foci with intense and varying-sized radioactivity spreading throughout the b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wu YC,Hsieh TC,Sun SS,Lo WC,Yen KY,Kao CH

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:A 67-year-old man with a swollen right testicle also had dry cough for 3 months. Computed tomography of the chest showed multiple calcified lung nodules and lymph nodes in the hilum. FDG PET/CT revealed elevated FDG activity not only in the right testicle mass but also calcified thoracic lesions. Histologic examinatio...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sun D,Yu R,Geng D,Chen J,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal vein thrombosis is a rare complication of renal transplantation. The scintigraphic features of a documented case of renal vein thrombosis studied with Tc-99m DTPA and the differential diagnosis relevant to these findings are discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Myerly KF,Kirchner PT

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) or sinus histiocytosis is a rare histiocytic disorder characterized by massive lymphadenopathy and with extranodal involvement in 25% to 43% of cases. The clinical course of RDD is unpredictable with episodes of exacerbation and remissions that can last many years, and treatment strategies ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Albano D,Bosio G,Bertagna F

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:We report a case of a 43-year-old man who underwent a radical prostatectomy 3 years before the procedure (June 2015) for a locally advanced Gleason 7(4 + 3) prostate adenocarcinoma (pT3aN0), with negative surgical margins, followed by salvage radiotherapy. He also underwent antiandrogen therapy for biochemical relapse...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mariotti GC,Cunha ML,Carneiro A,Smaletz O,Baroni RH,Garcia RG

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old man with gastrointestinal symptoms and weight loss underwent FDG PET/CT, which revealed multiple hypermetabolic hepatic lesions concerning for metastatic liver disease. The outcome of liver biopsy was consistent with the diagnosis of peliosis hepatis which is a rare benign disease characterized by multip...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Levin D,Hod N,Anconina R,Ezroh Kazap D,Shaco-Levy R,Lantsberg S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve the surgical success and reduce the complication rates, we combine our routine preoperative ultrasound (US) mapping technique with radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) in patients with papillary thyroid cancer recurrences in central compartment. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In the morning of surge...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ilgan S,Oztürk E,Yildiz R,Emer O,Ayan A,Görgülü S,Alagöz E,Deveci S,Ozgüven MA,Tufan T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM AND OBJECTIVES:The study aims to carry out in vivo tracking of stem cells labeled with positron emission tomography (PET) tracer fluorine 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) and find adequate administration methods for these cells in diabetic patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Bone marrow aspirate was taken from the iliac c...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sood V,Mittal BR,Bhansali A,Singh B,Khandelwal N,Marwaha N,Jain A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This article illustrates the complementary nature of preoperative radionuclide parathyroid imaging and intraoperative rapid parathyroid hormone (PTH) assays in primary hyperparathyroid disease. The authors review the literature on these procedures and compare this protocol and its cost-effectiveness with those ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wilkinson RH Jr,Leight GS Jr,Garner SC,Borges-Neto S

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are presented in whom pulmonary accumulation of Ga-67 led to an early diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis and its prompt treatment. Their chest radiographs were unremarkable and thus noncontributory to the diagnostic process. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Grieff M,Lisbona R

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic papillary carcinoma was diagnosed in a 42-year-old woman. The cancer had invaded out of the gland and was present in many lymph nodes. After her surgical procedure, she was advised to have radioiodine. However, the patient had total renal failure and was on dialysis. Studies were carried out using a tracer ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mello AM,Isaacs R,Petersen J,Kronenberger S,McDougall IR

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of bleeding scintigraphy is to localize the site of origin of a hemorrhage to within general regions of the large or small bowel. Activity is typically seen to extravasate from the blood pool into the lumen, and the collection of activity then moves on sequential images, as a result of the cathartic action of...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Krynyckyi BR,Zuckier LS,Tatlidil R,Chen WT,Kim CK,Freeman LM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We presented a promising result of radionuclide therapy using Lu-PSMA and Lu-DOTATATE in a patient with prostatic adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine differentiation. Functional imaging of somatostatin receptors in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer may pave the way toward implementation of no...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Assadi M,Pirayesh E,Rekabpour SJ,Zohrabi F,Jafari E,Nabipour I,Esmaili A,Amini A,Ahmadzadehfar H

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Imaging of Y internal pair production with conventional photomultiplier detector PET technology has been previously reported for patients with malignant/metastatic liver lesions treated with Y radioembolization (RE). We present a 54-year-old man with unresectable liver metastases from rectal carcinoma (involving the r...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wright CL,Zhang J,Binzel K,Wuthrick EJ,Knopp MV

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spongy body of the penis metastasis from other primary sites is a rare clinical entity. It is frequently associated with widespread metastatic disease and poor prognosis clinically. We report a case of a 61-year-old man with a previous history of cystectomy due to infiltrating urothelial carcinoma of the bladder 1...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wang YL,Fang N,Zeng L,Wu ZJ,Cui XJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ga-DOTATATE imaging is commonly used for the detection of metastatic disease in neuroendocrine tumors. We present a case of a 69-year-old woman postsurgery for lung carcinoid tumor in which sequential follow-up Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT studies identified focal hepatic uptake that was presumed to represent a liver metastasis...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hod N,Levin D,Anconina R,Taragin BH,Dudnik J,Lantsberg S

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Tc-99m pertechnetate is known for its uptake and excretion by the mammary gland. Generally, lactating women are not advised to have any radioisotopic studies. If it is necessary to have one, it is recommended that they do not breast-feed their children for at least 24 hours. Congenital absence of the mammary gland is ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Halkar RK,Abdel-Dayem H,Jahan S,Sehweil A,Sayed M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schmorl's node (SN) is a common entity characterized by protrusion of intervertebral disc material through a break in the subchondral end plate of a vertebral body. They can show increased 99mTC methylene diphosphonate uptake on bone scintigraphy mimicking metastasis and can be symptomatic. Differentiation of SN from ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Singh H,Sharma P,Naswa N,Nazar AH,Khangembam BC,Sahoo MK,Kumar R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-methionine (MET) positron emission tomography (PET) is more sensitive than F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET for detecting myeloma lesion. Many clinical studies support this evidence mainly for multiple myeloma cases of IgG or IgA subtypes. However, this is not confirmed for low monoclonal protein-producing myelomas, s...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Imataki O,Uchida S,Yokokura S,Uemura M,Kadowaki N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ga-67 urinary excretion was examined in 59 patients. The 72-hour urinary excretion rate ranged from 4.3 to 67.8% of the injected dose. Within the first 24 hours, 60.9% of the 72-hour urinary excretion was excreted. There was no significant difference in the Ga-67 urinary excretion rate between males and females, nor b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nakano S,Hasegawa Y,Ibuka K,Hashizume T,Noguchi A,Kojima J,Sasakuma F,Ishigami S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPECT using N-Isopropyl I-123 IMP was performed, as part of a neuropsychiatric evaluation, on 10 patients with the DSM III-R diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and 6 patients from a non-ADHD mixed psychiatric group used as controls for comparison. Mean regional I-123 IMP SPECT region of inter...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sieg KG,Gaffney GR,Preston DF,Hellings JA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00