Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part XV: Preventing Infections Associated With Health Care.

abstract：:Spinal metastases are rare in head and neck cancer. We present a rare case of vocal cord squamous cell cancer that metastasized to the spinal cord and cauda equina. A 63-year-old man presented with acute back pain and bilateral leg weakness 5 months after having a surgical treatment for moderately differentiated vocal...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Khan S,Son H

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone scintigraphy is sensitive for detecting bone metastases in patients with malignancies. However, it is often difficult to differentiate bone metastases from other nonmalignant lesions. We encountered a patient with a history of breast cancer who showed substantial elevation of tumor markers 4 years after surgery. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shigesawa T,Sugawara Y,Shinohara I,Fujii T,Mochizuki T,Morishige I

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of a painful hip prosthesis for suspected loosening frequently requires a multi-modality approach. Radionuclide arthroscintigraphy is a valuable adjunct to contrast arthrography, demonstrating greater sensitivity than contrast arthrography in detecting loosening of the femoral component of the prosthesi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Oswald SG,Herzwurm PJ

更新日期：1991-11-01 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

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to directly compare the efficacy of Tc-99m MIBI with TI-201/Tc-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy for localizing parathyroid adenomas in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Of 21 patients suspected of having primary hyperparathyroidism who had undergone both studies, 14 had subsequent ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rauth JD,Sessions RB,Shupe SC,Ziessman HA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This pilot study aimed to prove the complementary value of a novel Gallium-labeled heterodimeric peptide, Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD, in detection and evaluation of tumors with somatostatin receptor subtype 2 or integrin αvβ3 overexpression, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zheng Y,Wang H,Tan H,Cui X,Yao S,Zang J,Zhang L,Zhu Z

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of Tc-99m MDP vs Tc-99m dicarboxypropane diphosphonate (DPD) was evaluated in 20 patients with various skeletal bone diseases. Each patient was investigated twice, with an interval of three days between studies and using the same protocol, hence each case served as its own control. The results were: In...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Godart G,Durez M,Bevilacqua M,Abramovici J,Robience Y

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique information provided by radionuclide techniques allows the noninvasive characterization of primary tumors and tumor-like conditions of the liver. A thorough knowledge of the mechanisms of radiopharmaceutical localization and the histologic abnormalities present in each condition is required to optimally use...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Drane WE,Krasicky GA,Johnson DA

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with the general population, solid organ transplant recipients, including renal transplant patients, who are under long-term immunosuppression, present with up to a 120-fold increased risk of developing skin cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the renal transplant population with prior long-term dialysis, th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nguyen BD,Ram PC,Roarke MC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry has been very helpful in providing data to better understand patient risk factors for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The outcome of TAVR depends on many patient indicators, some of which are given in this article, including the age, dependence on oxygen, classif...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate large cell neuroendocrine tumor is a rare disease. In this case, metastatic areas showing FDG uptake, somatostatin receptor positivity, and PSMA expression are shown in F-FDG PET/CT, Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT, and Ga-PSMA PET/CT in a 70-year-old man with the diagnosis of prostate large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma....

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Acar E,Kaya GÇ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study compared the effectiveness of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or both for the assessment of recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The value of quantifying the standardized uptake values (SUV...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Li P,Zhuang H,Mozley PD,Denittis A,Yeh D,Machtay M,Smith R,Alavi A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schmorl's node (SN) is a common entity characterized by protrusion of intervertebral disc material through a break in the subchondral end plate of a vertebral body. They can show increased 99mTC methylene diphosphonate uptake on bone scintigraphy mimicking metastasis and can be symptomatic. Differentiation of SN from ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Singh H,Sharma P,Naswa N,Nazar AH,Khangembam BC,Sahoo MK,Kumar R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatobiliary scans are performed frequently to identify gallbladder-related disease. Although gallbladder stones are a common cause of hepatobiliary disease, they are visualized directly only rarely on hepatobiliary scans. Large gallbladder stones produced a photopenic defect in the gallbladder in a hepatobiliary sca...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sinha P,Krumm R,Mozley PD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both female adnexal tumor of possible wolffian origin (FATWO) and metastasis to the appendix from any primary tumor are extremely rare entities. The appendiceal metastasis from FATWO has not been reported, and there is a lack of the literature regarding FDG PET/CT study in both. We reported the case of an appendiceal ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Electrocardiograph-gated myocardial SPECT permits a quantitative assessment of global and regional functions by quantitative gated SPECT software. To validate quantitative indexes of wall motion and wall thickening, the authors compared these indexes with visual scores. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Gated myocardial S...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Konno M,Morita K,Adachi I,Ito Y,Kohya T,Kitabatake A,Tsukamoto E,Tamaki N

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent PET imaging of glioblastoma multiforme and other high-grade gliomas using prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted small-molecule radiotracers suggests a role for these agents in diagnostic imaging of recurrent/residual tumor and that PSMA-targeted endoradiotherapies may provide a new approach to ther...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Salas Fragomeni RA,Pienta KJ,Pomper MG,Gorin MA,Rowe SP

更新日期：2018-11-01 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

abstract：:In a prospective study for evaluation of the use of a monoclonal antibody directed against melanoma in the staging of patients affected by malignant melanoma, we report monoclonal antibody uptake in a follicular thyroid adenoma. Computed tomography, ultrasonography, and pertechnetate scintigraphy did not provide a cer...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Feggi L,Prandini N,Pansini G,Virgili T,Indelli M,Virgili AR

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reoperative surgery in the neck for recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is associated with increased morbidity compared with primary surgery. Radioguided occult lesion localization was recently proposed in patients with DTC recurrences. Here we report on the combination of radioguided occult lesion localizat...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Giovanella L,Suriano S,Lunghi L,Bongiovanni M,Ceriani L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycosis is a rare chronic granulomatous disease that runs an indolent course, predominantly seen in Asian countries. The present case highlights the findings of F-FDG PET/CT in cervicothoracic actinomycosis imitating lymphoma. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Singla S,Singh H,Mukherjee A,Karunanithi S,Bal C,Kumar R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a 61-year-old man with history of prostate cancer and rising PSA levels referred for restaging. Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT identified 2 lung nodules with low and moderate PSMA uptake. Subsequent F-FDG PET/CT showed high hypermetabolism in the nodule with low PSMA uptake, and low hypermetabolism in the nodu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Perez PM,Hope TA,Behr SC,van Zante A,Small EJ,Flavell RR

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:A review was made of the records of 24 consecutive trauma patients (aged 55-94 years) who had under gone radiographic examinations and a positive bone image of the femur or pelvis. There was considerable discordance between the radiographs and the bone images. Initially, 25% of the radiographs were interpreted as posi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Slavin JD Jr,Mathews J,Spencer RP

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old woman diagnosed with a metastatic well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of the cecum was referred for radioisotope therapy. Although her metastatic neuroendocrine tumor was positive on both (123)I-MIBG and (111)In-octreotide, there was a left parotid mass that was octreotide avid but MIBG negative. Fu...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Makis W,McCann K,McEwan AJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：PURPOSE:(177)Lu-labeled ethylenediamine-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis methylene phosphonic acid ((177)Lu-EDTMP), was used to palliate metastatic bone pain as a new bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical. In this phase II study, we assessed the efficacy and safety of (177)Lu-EDTMP for bone pain palliation in patients with breast cancer ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yuan J,Liu C,Liu X,Wang Y,Kuai D,Zhang G,Zaknun JJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis of colorectal adenocarcinoma to the larynx is a very rare condition. Here, we report a 72-year-old woman with a history of rectal adenocarcinoma. She was referred for whole-body FDG PET/CT scanning because of an elevating serum level of carcinoembryonic antigen. PET images showed focally increased FDG accum...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chen TY,Hung GU,Hung CC,Chiu JS,Kao CH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was designed to determine the outcomes of patients referred to the authors' nuclear medicine service for dosimetric evaluation and treatment of metastatic thyroid cancer with radioiodine I-131. In addition, the incidence and severity of hematologic toxicity associated with treatment were determined. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Robeson WR,Ellwood JE,Margulies P,Margouleff D

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A highly variable normal appearance of the sternal area makes interpretation difficult on planar bone imaging. These normal variants occur especially in the area above the xiphoid process of the sternum in which an oval photopenic area on anterior planar images may be seen. This finding is most likely caused by...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Han JK,Shih WJ,Stipp V,Magoun S

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00