Intense Uptake in Amyloidosis of the Seminal Vesicles on 68Ga-PSMA PET Mimicking Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer.

abstract：:Lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LG) is a rare condition with histological similarities to Wegener's granulomatosis and malignant lymphoma. Characteristically there is an angiocentric, angiodestructive lymphoreticular cell infiltrate. The lungs are usually affected, and, less frequently, the skin, nervous system, kidney, ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tien R,Moore WH,Glasser LM,Dhekne RD,Long SE

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective review of two years' experience with radionuclide screening to detect lower gastrointestinal bleeding sites was conducted at New York's Montefiore Medical Center. Of 82 studies performed in 63 patients, 13 identified active bleeding sites. Only three of eight angiograms obtained in these 13 patients we...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Winn M,Weissmann HS,Sprayregen S,Freeman LM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of liver, bone, and brain scans in 84 patients with recurrent or metastatic malignant melanoma were reviewed. The liver scan was initially positive in 18% (14/78) and ultimately in 32% (25/78). Serum alkaline phosphatase and lactic dehydrogenase were elevated in 92%. These patients ultimately developed pos...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Muss HB,Richards F 2nd,Barnes PL,Willard VV,Cowan RJ

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:A rare case of isolated right ventricular infarction (RVI) is described. The lack of clinical and electrocardiographic findings characteristic of isolated RVI makes this pathology a diagnostic challenge. The role of the radionuclide scintigraphic procedures as a single possible tool for the diagnosis of isolated RVI i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Garty I,Antonelli D,Barzilay J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-11 acetate positron emission tomography (PET) is known to have high sensitivity in detecting hepatocellular carcinoma. However, one of the shortcomings of C-11 acetate PET in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma is that C-11 acetate also accumulates in focal nodular hyperplasia, which makes it challenging to di...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Huo L,Wu Z,Zhuang H,Fu Z,Dang Y

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a woman with a history of Gaucher disease and secondary portal hypertension. She went to hospital for treatment of resistant fever without apparent cause. A conventional study of fever of unknown origin did not show any pathology. For this reason, she was referred to our department for a PET/CT, which did n...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Fuertes J,Garcia-Bennett JR,Iftimie S,Danús M,Abreu JA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being aware of the ideal nuclear properties of Tc-99m, our interest has been focused on the design of the (+5) oxidation state Tc-99m(V) dimercaptosuccinic acid (Tc(V)-DMSA) as a tumor-seeking agent. Tc-99m(V) DMSA holds a TcO4(3-) core and, like PO4(3-), has excellent characteristics for tumor uptake, but has a diffe...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ohta H,Ishii M,Yoshizumi M,Endo K,Sakahara H,Nakajima T,Yomoda I,Masuda H,Horiuchi K,Hata N

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with clinical, laboratory, radiographic and scintigraphic findings resembling the Budd-Chiari syndrome is described. However, at autopsy there was no thrombotic occlusion of any of the intrahepatic veins. The right hepatic vein was completely constricted by the hypertrophied left lobe of the liver, and the l...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dhawan VM,Sziklas JJ,Spencer RP

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes visualization of lung metastases secondary to adrenocortical carcinoma using I-131 labeled 6B-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol (NP-59) in a 26-year-old woman with a recurrence of Cushing's syndrome one year following surgical removal of the primary tumor. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chow CK,Ziessman HA,Earll JM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although positron emission tomography (PET) is an established diagnostic method in brain and lung cancer, its use is often confined to research. The authors report a case of a minimally symptomatic intramedullary spinal cord metastasis, an uncommon and often diagnostically challenging lesion, that was confirmed by PET...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Poggi MM,Patronas N,Buttman JA,Hewitt SM,Fuller B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to determine the diagnostic value (validity) of technetium-99m-pyridoxylideneglutamate cholescintigraphy (99mTc-PGC) in patients with and without cholecystitis and to compare its validity to those of oral cholecystography (OC) and ultrasonography (US). 99mTc-PGC was applied to 50 ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Stadalnik RC,Kraus JF,Matolo NM,Krohn KA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight children (5 girls, 23 boys; age, 20.3 +/- 16.2 months) with Kawasaki disease (KD) were included in this study. The children were treated with aspirin plus intravenous injection of gamma globulin (IVGG). Both Tc-99m HMPAO labeled WBC heart imaging (Tc-WBC) and two-dimensional echocardiograms (2D-Echo) were...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kao CH,Hsieh KS,Chen YC,Wang YL,Wang SJ,Yeh SH

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 76-year-old man with dyspnea (initial prostate-specific antigen [PSA]: 216 ng/mL) underwent F-FDG PET/CT, with uptake in the prostate, lymph nodes, fifth thoracic vertebra (T5), and cricoid cartilage. A biopsy revealed prostate adenocarcinoma (Gleason score 4 + 5, cT4 N1 M1). On initiation of combined androgen block...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Soeda F,Watabe T,Kato H,Uemura M,Nonomura N

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a cutaneous tumor of intermediate-grade malignant potential, and it rarely shows dedifferentiation to high-grade fibrosarcoma, which is called "fibrosarcomatous DFSP." We present the enhanced MRI and PET/MRI findings and our comparison with pathological findings in a case of f...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hakozaki M,Yamada H,Hasegawa O,Watanabe K,Konno S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dandy-Walker syndrome (DWS) is a rare congenital posterior fossa malformation characterized by aplasia or hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle, and enlargement of the posterior fossa. We present a 52-year-old Caucasian man diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumor and ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Infante JR,Garcia L,Rayo JI,Serrano J,Dominguez ML,Moreno M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy underwent 6 months of androgen deprivation therapy. Upon discontinuation of androgen deprivation therapy, serum prostate-specific antigen rose again to 0.69 ng/mL, and F-DCFPyL PET/CT was performed to identify the site of recurrence. However, on...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chaussé G,Laufer J,Abikhzer G,Probst S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver imaging was performed in two patients with traumatic right hemidiaphragmatic hernia. It has elucidated the cause of obliteration of the right hemidiaphragmatic shadow on the chest x-ray. These cases are illustrative of the usefulness of liver imaging in the diagnosis of traumatic right hemidiaphragmatic hernia a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Suzuki Y

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aims to investigate the feasibility of using simultaneous breast MRI and PET to assess the synergy of MR pharmacokinetic and fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) uptake data to characterize tumor aggressiveness in terms of metastatic burden and Ki67 status. METHODS:Twelve consecutive patients unde...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Margolis NE,Moy L,Sigmund EE,Freed M,McKellop J,Melsaether AN,Kim SG

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic subdural hematoma (SDH) is difficult to diagnose by clinical manifestations only. Nonspecific neurologic symptoms and signs may lead physicians to make other diagnoses. Although head trauma is the most common cause, it may be considered insignificant or omitted due to its minor initial manifestations. We prese...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hsieh TC,Kao CH,Wu YC,Wang CH,Yen KY,Sun SS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contralateral cerebellar diaschisis, hypometabolism in the cerebellum contralateral to a cortical lesion, is a well described phenomenon in patients with stroke and brain tumor. However, few reports exist of patients with cerebellar lesions with the finding of contralateral cortical hypometabolism. The authors present...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Newberg AB,Alavi A,Alavi J

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:Advanced imaging methods in early breast cancers are not recommended before surgery. In contrast to the accepted guidelines, some recent studies have shown some benefits with the use of PET/CT in early-stage breast cancer. In this study, we aimed to document the efficacy of PET/CT in detection of distant metast...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nursal GN,Nursal TZ,Aytac HO,Hasbay B,Torun N,Reyhan M,Yapar AF

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a poorly differentiated non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma, more frequent in children than in adults. The extranodal debut of the disease is rare. We report a 43-year-old male patient with history of dyspnea. Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis was reached after biopsy of a pleural lesion. An initial staging ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jiménez Granero P,García Gómez FJ,Ruiz Mercado M,Borrego Dorado I

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iatrogenic chyle leak with chyloma formation is a rare complication of kidney transplantation resulting from injury to the lymphatics. We present a case of a 53-year-old man who complained of right leg swelling 2 months after kidney transplantation for chronic renal failure. Abdomen CT showed loculated fluid collectio...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Oh JK,Yoon HE,Chung YA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal damage has been linked to memory impairment. To clarify the relationship between decreased hippocampal blood flow and memory impairment in patients after cardiovascular surgery, the authors compared Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT findings and Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores. Eight patients who had valve re...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nishimura T,Fukuchi K,Hayashida K,Hirose Y,Iwamoto B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiography, gated scintigraphy and contrast angiography were used to measure left ventricular ejection fractions in 20 patients with varying degrees of aortic insufficiency. There was good correlation between the radionuclide and the angiographic ejection fractions. Echocardiographic ejection fraction correlated...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Laskey WK,Bianco JA,From AH,Shafer RB

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of presurgical assessment is to delimit the epileptogenic zone and the functional deficit zone with a brain MRI, an electroencephalograph or even a stereo-electroencephalograph (SEEG), neuropsychological evaluation, and a cerebral FDG PET. Several studies concur that the hypometabolism of FDG P...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Montaz-Rosset MS,Scholly J,Voulleminot P,Severac F,Hirsch E,Valenti-Hirsch MP,Namer IJ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00