The complementary role of plain radiographs and radionuclide shuntography in evaluating CSF-VP shunts.

abstract：:Leaders of private practice groups face many challenges. Establishing proper governance, having a good mission statement and business plan, having good participation by the members in administrative practice activities, and establishing proper channels of communication are some important steps. Once that is done, effi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man with recently diagnosed prostate cancer was referred for Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT with elevated prostate-specific antigen. PET/CT demonstrated increased PSMA uptake in an undisplaced transverse fracture of the L1 vertebral body. This case illustrates that PSMA uptake can oc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vamadevan S,Le K,Bui C,Mansberg R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 27-year-old woman referred to our department for the characterization of a 7 × 6-cm left ischio-anal fossa mass by Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT. Several diagnoses were previously mentioned, in particular, myxoid sarcoma but also pelvic paraganglioma. Urinary methoxylated derivates and blood chromogranin A...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Thuillier P,Risson JR,Eusen Y,Uguen A,Abgral R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive alcohol ingestion is a recognized cause of reversible dilated cardiomyopathy. A case is reported of dilated cardiomyopathy associated with excessive alcohol consumption that was remarkable with respect to the rapidity and extent of normalization in left ventricular systolic function after cessation of alcoho...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hicks RJ,Low RD,Arkles LB

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old woman with history of breast cancer presented with pain at the level of the left anterior proximal tibia. An x-ray of the tibia demonstrated a lytic cortical lesion that prompted a whole-body 99mTc-MDP bone scan. The bone scan revealed intense bone remodeling at the level of the tibial lytic lesion and i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mannelli L,Monti S,Love JE,Kussick SJ,McLuen A,Behnia F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method for determining blood volume has evolved substantially since first attempts were made in the latter part of the nineteenth century with the exsanguination of animals. The now accepted methods are based on indicator dilution methodologies. First attempts utilized inert dyes such as Evans Blue and Cardiogreen...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Margouleff D

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：PURPOSE:This study assessed the value of a follow-up FDG PET scan when the initial PET demonstrated unexplained findings of focal FDG uptake in the abdomen. METHOD:The records of 3634 patients with PET scans were retrospectively reviewed. Those patients who had follow-up PET scans after the initial PET scan showed une...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Xiu Y,Zhuang H,Dadparvar S,Yu JQ,Dhurairaj T,Alavi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the published literature to assess the role (indications, advantages, and limitations) of SPECT/CT for the detection of sentinel lymph node (SLN) in breast cancer. METHODS:The authors searched PubMed for published literature in English addressing this...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vercellino L,Ohnona J,Groheux D,Slama A,Colletti PM,Chondrogiannis S,Merlet P,Toubert ME,Rubello D

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:A 66-year old woman had a left breast mass. Biopsy showed invasive ductal carcinoma. A PET/CT scan demonstrated hypermetabolism in the left breast and atypical heterogeneously increased uptake throughout the skeleton as well as a minimally FDG-avid right adrenal myelolipoma. PET/CT 4 months later after 6 cycles of neo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Manov JJ,Diaz-Bode A,Kuker R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic pyocyst is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. With extensive hepatic cystic disease, localization of a pyocyst and targeted aspiration or drainage is often a diagnostic challenge. Two patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ayesa SL,Gradinscak DJ,Schembri GP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-FDG PET/CT was performed on a 70-year-old man to stage the newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. A hypermetabolic lesion in the gallbladder fundus was revealed incidentally and suspected for gallbladder carcinoma, but was finally proven to be a cholesterol granuloma by the pathology of cholecystectomy. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Fu Z,Chen X,Yang X,Li Q

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While performing lymphoscintigraphy to define draining lymph node groups and sentinel nodes in patients with melanoma, the authors have discovered a new lymphatic channel in two patients with tumors in the peri-umbilical area. This channel passes over the right costal margin to an interval node before passing toward t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Uren RF,Howman-Giles RB,Thompson JF,Shaw HM,McCarthy WH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas benign leiomyoma of the uterus (fibroid) is very common, malignant degeneration of such fibroids to leiomyosarcoma is rare. Anatomical imaging with CT or MRI cannot differentiate between larger leiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma. Imaging with F-FDG PET/CT can be helpful in differentiating the two. High-grade F-FDG u...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sharma P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A higher uptake of radiocolloid in a splenic tumor than in the rest of the spleen was observed in a 17-year-old boy. The pathologic diagnosis of the surgically resected tumor was hamartoma composed of anomalous mixtures of splenic elements, and radiocolloid was considered to be distributed to reticuloendothelial cells...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Okada J,Yoshikawa K,Uno K,Arimizu N,Gotou H,Ogata S,Kashiwagi Y,Hasegawa Y,Tamaru J,Mikata A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m labeled red blood cell (RBC) preparations are gaining wide acceptance in the diagnosis and localization of gastrointestinal bleeding. A major requirement of the radiopharmaceutical is that the percentage of Tc-99m attached to red cells in the injected dose must be extremely high, since free pertechnetate is sec...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Benedetto AR,Nusynowitz ML

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoid pneumonia is uncommon disease caused by presence of macroscopic fat in the lung parenchyma commonly originating from exogenous source secondary to aspiration or inhalation of animal fats or mineral or vegetable oils. Alternatively, it can be due to endogenous fat accumulated in the alveoli in the setting of chr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ansari-Gilani K,Faraji N,Gilkeson RC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous injection of Tc-99m-labeled radionuclides permits angioscintigraphic and blood pool visualization of both supra- and infradiaphragmatic organs. By adding this procedure to routine bone scans an improvement in the diagnostic yield of incidentally observed renal abnormalities was achieved. Several illustrati...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chayes ZW,Strashun AM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a new approach to the evaluation of brain perfusion reserve using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. Consecutive brain Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT studies before and after acetazolamide (Diamox) administration were performed within 30 minutes on 19 patients with significant vascular occlusive lesions. Thirteen patients ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Matsuda H,Higashi S,Kinuya K,Tsuji S,Nozaki J,Sumiya H,Hisada K,Yamashita J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced cortical benzodiazepine receptor binding potential in late images of I-iomazenil SPECT indicates neuronal damage in the cortex. We present the case of a 31-year-old woman with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) who had focal seizures in the right hand. FLA...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Taguchi Y,Takashima S,Noguchi K,Tanaka K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:A 51-year-old man with a palpable neck mass and elevated parathyroid hormone was referred to our department for parathyroid scintigraphy. After injection of 740 MBq 99mTc-MIBI, a dual-phase scan was obtained, which revealed a persistent and intense focal hyperactivity in the left side of the neck (compatible w...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pirayesh E,Tavakoli M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the main malignancy with frequent endotracheal and endobronchial dissemination. Extrapulmonary sources of airway metastasis are less common, predominantly seen with breast, colorectal, and renal neoplasms. Head and neck cancer represents only a small fraction of tumors with tracheal luminal metastasis. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nguyen BD,Ram PC,Roarke MC

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 the current and rapidly worsening pandemic, patients with COVID-19 may undergo imaging with FDG PET/CT. Because a significant proportion of infected patients may be asymptomatic, incidental discovery on a PET/CT scan performed for unrelated reasons can occur. Because of the highly infectious nature of this agent, i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Martineau P,Kidane B

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to assess the utility of presynaptic dopaminergic imaging using 99mTc-TRODAT-1 SPECT/CT and 18F-FDOPA PET/CT and compare their performance in Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson-plus syndrome (PPS), and essential tremor (ET). PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 103 patients (PD = 48, PPS ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sood A,Shukla J,Shree R,Vatsa R,Modi M,Mittal BR

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient receiving nephrotoxic chemotherapy for metastatic cervical cancer was examined for acute renal failure. A Tc-99m MAG3 scan showed symmetric function, bilateral increasing parenchymal activity, and no tracer excretion in either collecting system. The differential diagnosis included cisplatin-induced nephrotox...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Esteves FP,Halkar RK,Taylor A Jr

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated the risk factors of indeterminate response (IDR) in patients who underwent recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone (rhTSH)-aided radioactive iodine therapy (RAIT). METHODS:A total of 128 patients with papillary thyroid cancer were included in this retrospective study. The patients were cl...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jeong E,Yoon JK,Lee SJ,Soh EY,Lee J,An YS

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:A 67-year-old woman underwent F-FDG PET/CT after developing a fever of unknown origin. PET/CT revealed intensive FDG uptake at the nasal and lung lesions. On the laboratory data, serum myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) titer was elevated, although serum directed against proteinase 3 (PR3) AN...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ito K,Minamimoto R,Yamashita H,Morooka M,Okasaki M,Mimori A,Kubota K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00