Asymmetric thoracic metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) activity due to prior radiation therapy.

abstract：:Technetium-99m-hexamibi (methoxy isobutyl isonitrile) is a Tc-99m-hexakis analog that can be used as a myocardial perfusion imaging agent. This is a report of an initial study that was performed in four institutions to assess the feasibility of Tc-99m-hexamibi myocardial imaging for the detection of coronary artery di...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Taillefer R,Dupras G,Sporn V,Rigo P,Leveille J,Boucher P,Perez-Balino N,Camin LL,McKusick KA

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：: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：:Tc-99m hydroxymethylene disphosphonate administered for skeletal scintigraphy may be seen in the extraosseous tissues for various etiologies. This report presents similar abnormal lower extremity skeletal muscle uptake in 2 patients status postorthotopic liver transplant. Although the history and scintigraphic appeara...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gremmels JM,Kirk GA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous expected competencies of a chief nursing officer are outlined in this article including communication, ability to build relationships, expertise about the environment of healthcare and its future directions, leadership, expertise in business matters, combating bullying, encouraging shared decision making, and...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA,Miller LB

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to evaluate and compare the role of Tc-GH SPECT/CT and F-FDOPA PET/CT for diagnosing recurrence in patients with glioma. METHODS:Thirty patients with histopathologically proven glioma (glioblastoma multiforme, 14; grade III, 6; grade II, 8; and grade I, 2), who presented with clinical and/or...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Karunanithi S,Bandopadhyaya GP,Sharma P,Kumar A,Singla S,Malhotra A,Gupta DK,Bal C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug related false-positive hepatobiliary imaging is uncommon. The authors present a case of a 54-year-old woman who was treated with intravenous ceftriaxone for bacterial meningitis. Symptoms of acute cholecystitis subsequently developed and a sonogram revealed a gallstone. A Tc-99m DISIDA hepatobiliary study was pos...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lorberboym M,Machado M,Glajchen N,Pertsemlidis D

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most common cancers affecting men worldwide, with a high recurrence rate after therapy. Ga-PSMA-11 and F-fluciclovine are PET imaging tracers for the detection of recurrence sites in PC patients. Ga-PSMA-11 is a membrane antigen overexpressed by tumor cells, whereas F-fluciclovine ta...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pernthaler B,Nazerani Hooshmand T,Igrec J,Kvaternik H,Aigner RM

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man, who had diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the neck and just finished 4 cycles of chemotherapy, presented to our department to evaluate the status of the disease. FDG PET/CT revealed a focally increased activity in the right lobe of the liver. However, pathological examination showed hepatocyte hydrop...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhao M,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chest radiograph revealed a large left lower hemithorax mass in a 48-year-old nonsmoker woman with chronic cough and dyspnea. Whole-body contrast-enhanced PET/CT confirmed a large mass with relatively uniform mild FDG uptake (standardized uptake value=1.8). No signs of infiltration, pleural effusion, significant reg...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gorospe L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-inlet left ventricle (DILV) is a congenital heart disease that only a single left ventricle and a rudimentary right ventricle are developed. Because of lack of anatomic landmark, interpretation of Tl myocardial perfusion imaging in DILV is essentially challenging for unusual anomaly. We report the case of a 44-...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chang MC,Lee ML,Yang PT

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with an asymptomatic nonsecreting left adrenal pheochromocytoma concentrated I-123 MIBG. Iodine-123 MIBG scintigraphy showed abnormal uptake in the left adrenal bed. The authors conclude that I-123 MIBG imaging may allow the in vivo diagnosis of non-functioning pheochromocytomas when there is no clinical evi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Maurea S,Lastoria S,Cuocolo A,Celentano L,Salvatore M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium-67 distribution in normal patients is well known; it is also known that the concentration in some tissues may vary according to an individual physiologic stimulus. In this report, the case of a young woman is presented who was studied 15 days after a cesarean section and showed physiologic and pathologic Ga-67...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： López OL,Maisano ER

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Freehand single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (fh-SPECT) for optical tracked 3-dimensional radioactivity mapping raises popularity for sentinel node biopsy and other radio-guided procedures. However, the device seems to be complex, requiring both training and a standardized scan protocol. Therefor...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pouw B,de Wit-van der Veen LJ,Stokkel MP,Valdés Olmos RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPECT findings in a very rare case of primary amyloidosis localized in the laryngotracheobronchial area are reported. SPECT using Tc-99m PYP revealed widespread uptake in the larynx and the entire tracheobronchial tree up to the subsegmental divisions; the areas corresponded to diffuse thickening and calcification of ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nishihara M,Oda J,Kamura T,Kimura M,Odano I,Sakai K

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of ¹⁸F-choline PET/CT (18FCH-PET/CT) in restaging patients previously treated by radical prostatectomy for a prostate cancer, presenting with biochemical relapse during follow-up (FU). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Three hundred thirty-one patients referred to us from ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Marzola MC,Chondrogiannis S,Ferretti A,Grassetto G,Rampin L,Massaro A,Castellucci P,Picchio M,Al-Nahhas A,Colletti PM,Marcolongo A,Rubello D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 15-year-old boy underwent hepatobiliary scintigraphy for suspected acute cholecystitis. The initial images revealed an activity in the neighborhood of normal gallbladder fossa, suggestive of possible activity in the gallbladder, which would be inconsistent with a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. However, after drin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bai X,Wang X

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old girl underwent F-NaF PET/CT to evaluate bone pain after an accident. The images did not identify any osseous lesion. However, there was a focally increased activity in the left upper chest, which corresponded to a partially calcified soft tissue mass in the mediastinum, suggestive of malignancy. The resu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shao F,Wu J,Huang Z,Zhou F,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Papillary thyroid carcinomas smaller than 1 cm are classified as papillary microcarcinomas (PMCs). Papillary microcarcinomas are usually considered low-risk tumors; however in some cases, PMCs behave aggressively and metastasize early, giving rise to clinically metastatic disease. Debate exists in th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ardito G,Revelli L,Giustozzi E,Salvatori M,Fadda G,Ardito F,Avenia N,Ferretti A,Rampin L,Chondrogiannis S,Colletti PM,Rubello D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olivopontocerebellar atrophy is a rare neurodegenerative syndrome associated with 2 distinct disorders: multiple system atrophy and spinocerebellar ataxia. We present a case involving a 66-year-old man with adult-onset progressing cerebellar signs reflective of a cerebellar syndrome with no significant family history ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harfouch N,Finkelstein M,Sathe S,Raden M,Brenner AI

更新日期：2020-09-01 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 present an F-18 FDG PET scan which demonstrates 3 synchronous primary malignancies. The patient is a 61-year-old man who presented with weight loss and dysphagia. He was initially diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the midesophagus, and was then found to have an adenocarcinoma in the right lung. A staging PE...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mittra E,Vasanawala M,Niederkohr R,Rodriguez C,Segall G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) profile in patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and to investigate its possible correlation with clinical, electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetic resonance imaging/computed tomography (MRI/CT) findings. METHODS:E...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yilmaz K,Yilmaz M,Mete A,Celen Z

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 45-year-old woman diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Six months after completion of R-CHOP, she relapsed, and 2 cycles of R-ESHAP were given, with a view to allograft transplant. One month later, F-FDG PET/CT revealed disease progression. Biopsy of lymph nodes showed reactive changes, without...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Skoura E,Ardeshna K,Halsey R,Wan S,Kayani I

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In this study, we investigated the relationship of cerebral tau deposition (F-tau-AD-ML 104 PET/CT) with glucose metabolism (F-FDG PET/CT) and cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Seventy subjects (Mini Mental State Examination [MMSE] score <18 = 37 [AD]; MMSE score, 18-...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Baghel V,Tripathi M,Parida G,Gupta R,Yadav S,Kumar P,Dey AB,Damle NA,Kumar R,Bal C

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to imaging in the conventional positions, TI-201 myocardial imaging was also performed in a 25 degree cephalad projection. This resulted in improved imaging, especially of the inferior wall. Myocardial images are presented in five patients in whom areas of absent activity were most sharply delineated in th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Esquerre JP,Yeboles L,Guiraud R

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：PURPOSE:To compare the accuracy of three camera-assisted methods for the measurement of Tc-99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (MAG3) clearance. MATERIALS AND METHODS:MAG3 renal scintigraphy was performed in 21 adults with different degrees of renal function. Posterior views were obtained that included the heart and the kidn...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bocher M,Shrem Y,Tappiser A,Klein M,Schechter D,Taylor A Jr,Chisin R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00