Assessment of Aggressiveness of Breast Cancer Using Simultaneous 18F-FDG-PET and DCE-MRI: Preliminary Observation.

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate indirect findings of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage on radionuclide cisternography and their changes after treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study was approved by the hospital's institutional review board and informed consent was obtained before each examination. A total of 67 patients who w...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Morioka T,Aoki T,Tomoda Y,Takahashi H,Kakeda S,Takeshita I,Ohno M,Korogi Y

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of ankylosing spondylitis are presented in which radionuclide bone studies indicated focal abnormalities of the spine. In three patients, the area of abnormal nuclide uptake corresponded to a site of pseudarthrosis, and in the fourth an acute fracture was present. As such focal lesions on bone scans are unu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Resnick D,Williamson S,Alazraki N

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:PET using the radiotracer (18)F-FDG is used for staging patients with esophageal cancer. Nonmalignant conditions, mainly inflammation and some benign tumors, however, can cloud the clinical picture by taking up FDG and producing a false-positive result. We report the case of a 46 year-old man with squamous cell carcin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bingham BA,Hatef DA,Chevez-Barrios P,Blackmon SH,Kim MP

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:FDG PET-CT plays a critical role in the management of head and neck cancer patients. After therapy, many patterns of altered physiologic FDG uptake have been recognized. In our institution, we noticed patterns of head and neck muscle uptake that were unique in the post-therapy scans of head and neck cancer p...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Matthews R,Shrestha P,Franceschi D,Relan N,Kaloudis E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old girl with cardiorespiratory distress and suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) was referred for urgent lung perfusion scintigraphy, proven negative for perfusion defects but unexpectedly revealing an enlarged orthotopic thyroid. This finding was, under the circumstances, considered as suggestive of thyroid st...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Arsos G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old woman had autopsy-proven miliary tuberculosis, with regional involvement of the meninges of the left Sylvian fissure. Radionuclide studies of the brain demonstrated the unusual findings of increased perfusion to the left hemisphere and linear increased activity corresponding to the left Sylvian fissure. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Klingensmith WC 3rd,Datu J

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 58-year-old man was referred for selective internal radiation therapy for locally advanced unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. Intra-arterial particle perfusion scintigraphy was performed with SPECT/CT following intra-arterial injection of Tc macroaggregated albumin. Angiography demonstrated a hepatic falciform a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Patel D,Le K,Chaganti J,Mansberg R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium imaging may play an important role in both initial evaluation and in follow-up in patients with metastatic melanoma. We present a case where the patient had gallium-avid metastatic melanoma. SPECT proved helpful in the initial evaluation. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Edeburn GF,Tow DE

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography is the standard diagnostic examination employed to identify the morbid anatomy of cerebrospinal fluid spaces in children. This noninvasive technique provides excellent anatomic information. However, CT only indirectly characterizes the cerebral spinal fluid pathways. When it is necessary to determi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sty JR,Babbitt DP,D'Souza B

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rib benign fibrous histiocytoma (BFH) is an uncommon entity. We came across a 20-year-old Chinese man who complained of right chest pain for 2 weeks. All laboratory examination results were normal. CT of the thorax revealed an expansible bone lesion in the right sixth anterior rib. Whole-body bone scan demonstrated in...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Li X,Meng Z,Li D,Tan J,Song X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented in which uptake of Tc-99m DTPA has been demonstrated in an extramedullary plasmacytoma of the retroperitoneum. Because Ga-67 citrate does not concentrate in the same areas as Tc-99m DTPA, a radionuclide-specific uptake mechanism may be present. Extramedullary plasmacytoma should be included in the ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Aburano T,Yokoyama K,Michigishi T,Tonami N,Hisada K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycotic aneurysm is a rare and life-threatening disorder. Computed tomography (CT) is considered to be the best diagnostic imaging modality that can detect an abdominal aortic aneurysm and changes in the surrounding structures. More recently, F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET would seem to hold promise for the diagnos...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Choi SJ,Lee JS,Cheong MH,Byun SS,Hyun IY

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusely increased radioactivity in the thoracoabdominal region (lower thorax and/or upper abdomen) occasionally has been observed when performing Tc-99m phosphonate bone studies. To assess the significance of activity in this finding, 1100 bone scintigrams were reviewed and the clinical data and other diagnostic ima...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shih WJ,Coupal JJ,Domstad PA,DeLand FH

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type A acute intramural hematoma (IMH) of the ascending aorta is defined as hemorrhage in the aortic wall in the absence of intimal disruption. Proximity to the adventitia may explain the higher incidence of rupture in IMH. We present a case of IMH, diagnosed by the presence of linear intense uptake of FDG on PET/CT, ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ryan A,McCook B,Sholosh B,Pryma DA,Jablonowski E,Fuhrman C,Blodgett TM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was initiated to define whether Tc-99m leukocyte imaging, compared to In-111 chloride imaging, could provide additional information on the hematopoietic activity of the bone marrow in diffuse hematologic disorders. A total of 11 patients with hematologic disorders were studied both with Tc-99m leukoc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Aburano T,Yokoyama K,Shuke N,Kinuya S,Takayama T,Michigishi T,Tonami N,Hisada K

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac involvement is rare in neurofibromatosis 1 (NF 1). Very few cases of cardiac masses in this entity have been documented in the world literature. We present the F-FDG PET/CT findings in a rare case of cardiac plexiform neurofibromatosis. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： D'souza MM,Sondhi P,D'souza P,Sharma R,Jaimini A,Pandey S,Mondal A,Tripathi RP

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：:Ocular metastases secondary to thyroid cancer are extremely uncommon, typically affecting the orbit rather than the globe and uvea. Within the uveal structures, the choroid is more commonly involved than the iris and ciliary body. We present a 56-year-old male patient who underwent total thyroidectomy for metastatic p...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Padma S,Tiwari A,Borde CR,G S S,Palaniswamy SS

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：PURPOSES:To evaluate the dosimetric effect of outpatient radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer in members of a patient's family and their living environment, when using iodine-131 doses reaching 7.4 GBq. The following parameters were thus defined: (a) whole-body radiation doses to caregivers, (b) the production of con...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Willegaignon J,Sapienza M,Ono C,Watanabe T,Guimarães MI,Gutterres R,Marechal MH,Buchpiguel C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary artery involvement can occur in about half of the patients suffering Takayasu arteritis. Increased FDG activity in the aorta and its main branches in patients with Takayasu arteritis on PET/CT had been well-reported. However, the FDG PET/CT appearance of pulmonary artery involvement in Takayasu arteritis is ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y,Tong G,Wen Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTc-pyrophosphate and 99mTc-diphosphonate have successfully been employed in the diagnosis of neoplastic pelvic disease in women. In our ongoing study, 48 women with pelvic masses, underwent dynamic pelvic scintigraphy, correlative ultrasonography and exploratory laparotomy. Dynamic scintigraphy and region of intere...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Manfredi OL,Aruny JE

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial pneumonia is one of the many causes of a scintigraphic ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. To evaluate the morphologic features of V/Q mismatched areas in patients with interstitial pneumonia, we correlated the findings on lung scintigraphy using Kr-81m and Tc-99m MAA with CT scan findings. Of 41 patien...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ogawa Y,Ashizawa K,Hashmi R,Takemoto Y,Hayashi K

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 31-year-old woman underwent Tc-labeled UBI scanning for diagnosis of possible prosthesis infection evaluation in our department. The scan showed an area of increased tracer uptake in the mid-lateral portion of the left thigh. This was proven to be due to a retained surgical gauze in her left thigh. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ghahremani S,Sadeghi R,Dabbagh Kakhki VR,Massoudi T,Aryana K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac apical mass of Hodgkin's disease, an infrequent presentation of lymphomas, can be selectively labeled with 67Ga-citrate. Three cases are presented illustrating the value of 67Ga scintigraphy in the differential diagnosis of pericardial masses, as well as its role in the management and assessment of therapy...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Manfredi OL,Sundaram R,Ramadan FM,Aruny J

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis in lymph node that is FDG-avid is an unusual diagnosis. FDG PET/CT showed the presence of multifocal lymphadenopathy mainly axillary with a mesenteric mass. Surgical lymph node biopsy with histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of amyloidosis in a 64-year-old woman with an initial left axillary p...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Abdou E,Amre R,Hickeson M,Derbekyan V,Sebag M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old man with a history of metastatic melanoma and sclerotic bone lesions seen on CT was referred for F NaF PET/CT evaluation of active skeletal metastases. While the bone lesions had no uptake and were therefore thought to represent sequela of previously treated disease, an unexpected area of F NaF uptake wa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jones RP,Iagaru A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute suppurative thyroiditis is an uncommon condition. Most patients have preexisting oropharyngeal fistulae. Penetrating oropharyngeal injuries resulting from swallowed foreign bodies provide an acquired channel of infection spreading into the relatively resistant thyroid gland. The authors describe a patient with i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yung BC,Loke TK,Fan WC,Chan JC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00