Focally Increased FDG Activity in the Liver Related to Hydropic Degeneration.

abstract：:Takayasu's disease (pulseless disease) is an uncommon chronic inflammatory disease primarily affecting the medium and large arteries, with a strong predilection for the aortic arch and its branches; hence, it sometimes is referred to as aortic arch syndrome. The etiology is unknown, although a systemic immunologic pro...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Balingit AG,Anderson JH

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thallium-201 uptake patterns in the orbits are not widely known. Diffuse, bilateral orbital localization of TI-201 chloride may be an incidental finding because of orbital muscle or other soft tissue uptake. Differences in orbital blood flow and soft tissue mass may be the cause of the varying uptake intensities in mo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Durak H,Durak I,Derebek E,Kaynak S,Metin E,Ergin M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the significance of increased perfusion associated with some hepatic hemangiomata during radionuclide blood volume imaging. METHODS:Immediate dynamic planar projections and delayed SPECT imaging of a hepatic lesion were obtained after the administration of Tc-99m-labeled RBC. Scintigraphic data ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dwamena BA,Belcher KK,Dasika N,Frey KA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are occasional reports of a hiatal hernia demonstrating thoracic uptake on I-131 scintigraphy. This is a cause of a potential false-positive appearance mimicking a pulmonary or mediastinal metastasis. Hiatal hernia is 1 of a number of causes of false-positive I-131 whole-body scans. Although previous case report...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Freeman M,Roach P,Robinson B,Shields M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To define the appropriate scan time for fluorine-18-labeled dihydroxyphenylalanine (F-18 DOPA) PET in oncological imaging of pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS:F-18 DOPA PET examinations were performed in 9 patients with 7 pheochromocytomas and 4 head and neck paragangliomas using a de...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hentschel M,Rottenburger C,Boedeker CC,Neumann HP,Brink I

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Hairy cell leukemia is a rare hematologic malignancy characterized by splenomegaly, pancytopenia, and susceptibility to infections. We report a case of a 66-year-old man, diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia, without severe cytopenias and splenomegaly, but with an extensive pathological retroperitoneal mass and infiltra...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Doma A,Škerget M,Žagar I

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress fractures are a common injury in long-distance runners, and typically involve the lower extremities. Although relatively rare, pubic ramus stress fractures also occur, primarily in female runners. Bone imaging visualized a pubic stress fracture and a tibial stress fracture in a female long-distance runner with ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Thorne DA,Datz FL

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of thyroid nodules in children is often difficult, especially in pretreated patients with metastatic disease. In osteosarcoma patients, Tc-MDP SPECT/CT is used for primary and follow-up staging. Bone and soft tissue metastases can be revealed because of Tc-MDP imaging of osteoid-producing metastases...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Roll W,Weckesser M,Pöppelmann M,Schiborr M,Schäfers M,Rahbar K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the feasibility of using Ga PSMA-11 PET/CT for imaging brain lesions and its comparison with F-FDG. METHODS:Ten patients with brain lesions were included in the study. Five patients were treated cases of glioblastoma with suspected recurrence. F-FDG and Ga PSMA-11 brain scans were done for these ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sasikumar A,Joy A,Pillai MR,Nanabala R,Anees K M,Jayaprakash PG,Madhavan J,Nair S

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：PURPOSE:A 68-year-old man with metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma had T3 hyperthyroidism. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A bone scan showed intense uptake in the thyroid and multiple areas of increased uptake in the skeleton. Hyperthyroidism persisted after total thyroidectomy. Treatment with I-131 induced a transient stat...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rosário F,Marques AR,Roque L,Rodrigues R,Ferreira TC,Limbert E,Sobrinho L,Leite V

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB), a synthetic, nonmetabolized amino acid which is rapidly transported into viable cells by the A-type or alanine-preferring amino acid transport system, has been labeled with the short-lived, positron-emitting radionuclide carbon-11. Carbon-11 labeled AIB is currently being evaluated as...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Schmall B,Conti PS,Bigler RE,Zanzonico PB,Reiman RE,Benua RS,Yeh SD,Dahl JR,Lee R,Laughlin JS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The present study aimed to determine the predictive value of the heart-liver uptake ratio (H/L ratio) of rectally administered (201)Tl scintigraphy for hepatic decompensation, which was conducted in 107 patients with cirrhosis. METHODS:We retrospectively assessed the predictive value of a noninvasive parameter...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lee MH,Tae HJ,Jun DW,Ryu SE,Choi YY,Kwak MJ,Kang JS

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Interpretation of F-FDG PET/CT studies in breast is challenging owing to nonspecific FDG uptake in various benign and malignant conditions. Benign conditions include breast changes in pregnancy and lactation, gynecomastia, mastitis, fat necrosis, fibroadenoma, intraductal papilloma, and atypical ductal hyperplasia. Am...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dong A,Wang Y,Lu J,Zuo C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascites can cause pleural effusions when the peritoneal fluid crosses the diaphragm through a pleuroperitoneal shunt in the setting of hepatic cirrhosis (hepatic hydrothorax) or malignant ascites. Scintigraphic imaging for pleuroperitoneal shunt requires intraperitoneal injection of Tc-SC or Tc-macroaggregated albumin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Covington MF,Choudhary G,Avery RJ,Kuo PH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heel pain is a common symptom in foot and ankle disorders. Typical heel pain can be assessed according to the patient's history and the location of pain. In some atypical inconclusive cases, bone SPECT/CT is the upcoming imaging modality for the detection of causes of heel pain. We present the case of 57-year-old man ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lee M,Kim BS,Kim Y,Hyun IY

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing sarcoma is the second most common pediatric malignant bone tumor. It usually presents as a hot spot on a 3-phase bone scan as a result of increased vascularity of the tumor and new bone formation. However, aggressive Ewing sarcoma can also appear as a cold lesion. We present the features of a Ewing sarcoma of th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Alfeeli MA,Naddaf SY,Syed GM

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Following single-lung transplantation (SLT), there is significant redistribution of flow preferentially to the transplanted lung. Altered lung perfusion leads to unusual results when performing pulmonary scintigraphy, which could result in interpretation errors. We present pulmonary scintigraphy images from a 67-year-...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tsai J,Rowe SP,Solnes LB,Salas Fragomeni RA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperplasia of the parathyroid glands usually is treated surgically by total parathyroidectomy, which would deprive the patient of the parathormone essential for calcium metabolism. The postoperative management of patients submitted to total parathyroidectomy consists either in oral administration of vitamin D and cal...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Fronistas O,Stavraka-Kakavaki A,Giougi A,Papatheophanis J

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：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：: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：: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：:67Ga-citrate scan from skull to mid-abdomen showed increased uptake in both parotid glands, mediastinum, lungs, uvei and/or enlarged lacrimal glands. The differential diagnosis of the positive radiogallium scan is discussed with emphasis on the value of the extrathoracic findings. Tissue diagnosis confirmed the imagin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Oren VO,Uszler JM,White J

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses some of the most recent research and future directions of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. In addition to numerous articles on short-term outcomes from cardiac surgery on adults, there are new initiatives of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database which will all...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：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