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abstract：:For better delineation of regional ventilation abnormalities, a lateral-view imaging has been employed when one or more areas of abnormal retention were visible in posterior views of 133Xe washout images. It is technically simple to obtain lateral views during the 133Xe washout phase. The resulting images were found t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yun Ryo U,Bilow PA,Pinsky S

更新日期：1979-02-01 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

abstract：:Incidental thyroid FDG uptake is not rarely encountered on PET studies. In this case, we present an incidental thyroid focus of F-FDG uptake identified in a patient with splenic marginal zone lymphoma during the baseline and the response assessment PET/CT study that proved to be medullary thyroid carcinoma on subseque...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Paschali A,Moonim M,Hubbard J,Mohan H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To produce fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) images with markers for normal organs and large blood vessels in patients with suspected lung cancer. METHODS:Dual isotope SPECT images were made using F-18 FDG- and Tc-99m-labeled autologous red cells. RESULTS:FDG-positive lesions are localized in relation to major structu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Burt R

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:Tc-99m RBC venography demonstrated bilateral iliac vein obstruction with subsequent collateral flow through the internal iliac veins into the internal and perimuscular rectal plexuses. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lisann NM,Palestro CJ,Benua RS

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinothorax or urothorax, the presence of urine in the pleural space, is a rare complication of percutaneous access to the kidney for the management of complex renal and proximal ureteral calculi and ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Other causes such as blunt renal trauma, ureteral instrumentation, or ureteral surg...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Agranovich S,Cherniavsky E,Tiktinsky E,Horne T,Lantsberg S

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Patients with prune belly syndrome usually have tortuous ureters, which can cause difficulty in the interpretation of renal scan used to evaluate possible urine leak after renal transplant. We reported a renal scan finding in a pediatric renal transplant patient with prune belly syndrome. The radioactivity in the dila...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu B,Kaplan SL,Zhuang H

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-FDG PET/CT performed for primary staging 3 days after ureteroscopy demonstrated a large, unexpected retroperitoneal urinoma in a 62-year-old man with urothelial carcinoma in the right renal pelvis. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dias AH,Ipsen P,Bouchelouche K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperfunctioning thyroid adenomas causing thyrotoxicosis (Plummer's disease) is not an uncommon cause of hyperthyroidism in the elderly. Most commonly, the adenoma appears as a so-called "hot" nodule on thyroid scintigraphy causing suppression (i.e., nonvisualization) of the remainder of the gland. This report describ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Intenzo CM,Park CH,Kim SM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old man presented with shortness of breath and ankle edema. Constrictive pericarditis with an unexplained mass surrounding the heart was diagnosed by ultrasound. Accordingly, F-FDG PET/CT was performed. Multiple PET-positive noduli and irregular tissue were located in the pericardium, with pleural fluid pres...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Edel JP,Balink H

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:This study documented the previously reported lower sensitivity of routine planar three-phase bone scintigraphy (BS) performed using a high-resolution parallel-hole collimator compared with MRI to diagnose nontraumatic avascular necrosis of the hip (AVN). METHODS:Six observers reviewed 143 bone scintigrams obt...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Scheiber C,Meyer ME,Dumitresco B,Demangeat JL,Schneegans O,Javier RM,Durkel J,Grob JC,Grucker D

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old man with Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome (DDMS) was admitted to the hospital with increasing frequency of epileptic seizures. Physical examination revealed mental retardation, left facial asymmetry, and left-sided spastic hemiparesis. Dysdiadochokinesia on the left upper limb was detected, and there was no...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Demir Y,Sürücü E,Çilingir V,Bulut MD,Tombul T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate 2 different injection techniques for lymphoscintigraphy to determine the axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN) in patients with breast cancer. METHODS:Thirty-six patients with early breast cancer were studied prospectively. Both peritumoral (PT) and subdermal (SD) injecti...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Eroglu A,Mudun A,Berberoglu K,Asoglu O,Ozmen V,Muslumanoglu M,Bozfakioglu Y,Yavuz E,Tuzlali S,Cantez S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 45-year-old man who had a mass on the wall of the anterior right hemithorax. An excisional biopsy indicated carcinoma metastasis from thyroid malignancy. Tc-99m methoxyisobutyl isonitrile (MIBI) scintigraphy revealed markedly increased activity on the left side of the thyroid and the thoracic wall mass....

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kaya M,Cermik TF

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biliary scans of 84 hospitalized patients believed to likely have acute cholecystitis, including 55 scans that had a radionuclide angiography phase, were retrospectively evaluated to determine the frequency of the rim sign and hyperperfusion, and to test the hypothesis that more intense hyperperfusion or rim sign is a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bohdiewicz PJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：: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：:A Tc-99m Technegas MAA-SPECT was performed on an 81-year-old woman to exclude pulmonary embolism. It showed hypoperfusion and practically absent ventilation of the entire left lung, suggesting a left-sided centrally localized airway obstruction or compression with secondary hypoxic vasoconstriction. Subsequent broncho...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Deryk S,Nieboer K,Ceulemans G,Bossuyt A,Vanhove C,Everaert H

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a prospective study to assess the clinical value of evaluating the adequacy of 24-hour urine specimens submitted for Schilling tests. A total of 121 specimens were evaluated of which 51 had abnormal vitamin B12 excretion values. Of those 51, there were 23 with apparently inadequate total creatinine conten...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Heironimus JD,Borchert RD,Weiland FL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old man with a history of surgical resection of leiomyosarcoma of the right kidney had a bone scan to evaluate possible metastatic osseous disease. The bone scan showed significantly increased Tc-99m MDP activity in the right abdomen, corresponding to a heterogeneous mass in the right retroperitoneal region ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the results of using fluorine deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) to guide the antifungal therapy against chronic disseminated candidiasis in patients with acute leukemia. Three adult patients were enrolled in this study. All patients underwent a series o...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Xu B,Shi P,Wu H,Guo X,Wang Q,Zhou S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of brain imaging has grown rapidly with new modalities, hybrid combinations of existing modalities, and novel metabolic tracers. F-florbetapir is an amyloid plaque-binding molecule labeled to F that allows positron imaging of the amyloid deposition in the brain. This protein deposition is known to be one...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vercher-Conejero JL,Rubbert C,Kohan AA,Partovi S,O'Donnell JK

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the case of a 27-year-old woman with gamma probe-guided resection of a recurrent regional lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer. Reoperation is often impaired in cases with extensive scarring because of previous surgery, high-dose radioiodine therapy, and external irradiation. In this ca...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gallowitsch HJ,Fellinger J,Mikosch P,Kresnik E,Lind P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated the incidence of lymph node metastasis in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients in our PET/CT database. The demographic data and characteristics of the primary tumor were evaluated in GIST patients with or without lymph node metastasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We reviewed our PET/CT data...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gong N,Wong CS,Chu YC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to recent advances in imaging technology and radiologic intervention, survival rates in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma have improved markedly. However, such prolonged survival has resulted in an increase in extrahepatic metastases. Tc-99m (Sn)-N-pyridoxyl-5-methyltryptophan (Tc-99m PMT), developed for he...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hayase N,Fukumoto M,Yoshida D,Kariya S,Akagi N,Kurohara A,Hisa N,Yoshida S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer is a rare thyroid cancer, accounts for approximately 5% of all thyroid cancer cases, and is associated with a poor prognosis. It commonly metastasizes to regional lymph nodes, lung, and bones. We present a patient with poorly differentiated thyroid cancer with unusual extensive spr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ma HY,Moadel R,Freeman LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00