Peliosis Hepatis Simulating Metastatic Liver Disease on FDG PET/CT.

abstract：:Urinothorax or urothorax, the presence of urine in the pleural space, is a rare complication of percutaneous access to the kidney for the management of complex renal and proximal ureteral calculi and ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Other causes such as blunt renal trauma, ureteral instrumentation, or ureteral surg...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Agranovich S,Cherniavsky E,Tiktinsky E,Horne T,Lantsberg S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with an asymptomatic nonsecreting left adrenal pheochromocytoma concentrated I-123 MIBG. Iodine-123 MIBG scintigraphy showed abnormal uptake in the left adrenal bed. The authors conclude that I-123 MIBG imaging may allow the in vivo diagnosis of non-functioning pheochromocytomas when there is no clinical evi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Maurea S,Lastoria S,Cuocolo A,Celentano L,Salvatore M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report incidental FDG PET/CT findings of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in a patient with bacteremia. In this patient, diagnosis of thromboembolism was not considered until FDG PET/CT imaging was performed, and the findings prompted immediate anticoagulant therapy. The role of FDG PET/CT in venous th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nielsen AL,Thomassen A,Hess S,Alavi A,Høilund-Carlsen PF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPECT findings in a very rare case of primary amyloidosis localized in the laryngotracheobronchial area are reported. SPECT using Tc-99m PYP revealed widespread uptake in the larynx and the entire tracheobronchial tree up to the subsegmental divisions; the areas corresponded to diffuse thickening and calcification of ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nishihara M,Oda J,Kamura T,Kimura M,Odano I,Sakai K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Metabolic changes occur in the right ventricle (RV) under increased afterload in pulmonary arterial hypertension. FDG PET imaging has potential to assess RV function. In this study, we aimed to determine the prognostic value of metabolic changes of RV using FDG PET imaging in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hyper...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Li W,Wang L,Xiong CM,Yang T,Zhang Y,Gu Q,Yang Y,Ni XH,Liu ZH,Fang W,He JG

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the incremental value of cocktail F-FDG/F-NaF PET/CT over F-FDG PET/CT alone for detection of skeletal metastases in breast cancer patients. METHODS:Seventy patients with locally advanced/recurrent breast cancer were prospectively included. All patients underwent whole-bod...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Roop MJ,Singh B,Singh H,Watts A,Kohli PS,Mittal BR,Singh G

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：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：:Perfusion lung scintigraphy using SPECT/CT is one mainstay in diagnosing pulmonary embolism. Although typically almost all tracer will be accumulated in the lung capillaries, occasionally abnormal uptake can be detected. As superior vena cava syndrome leads to aberrant blood flow, tracer injected to an arm vein might ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kersting D,Guberina N,Umutlu L,Stuschke M,Hautzel H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a rare hematologic malignancy characterized by the accumulation of monocytes in the blood and bone marrow, dysplastic hematopoiesis, and potential leukemic involvement of organs. We report a case of leukemic involvement of cervical lymph nodes detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT. A 53-...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Derlin T,Clauditz TS,Bannas P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infected aortic aneurysm is an uncommon life-threatening disease. A 68-year-old man had a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and repeated urinary tract infections. He presented with fever, chills, low back pain, leukocytosis, and Salmonella group B bacteremia. For evaluation of suspected lumbar vertebral osteomyeliti...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hsu CC,Huang YF,Chuang YW

更新日期：2008-04-01 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:This study documented the previously reported lower sensitivity of routine planar three-phase bone scintigraphy (BS) performed using a high-resolution parallel-hole collimator compared with MRI to diagnose nontraumatic avascular necrosis of the hip (AVN). METHODS:Six observers reviewed 143 bone scintigrams obt...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Scheiber C,Meyer ME,Dumitresco B,Demangeat JL,Schneegans O,Javier RM,Durkel J,Grob JC,Grucker D

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on the prognostic value of metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) derived from pretreatment F-FDG PET/CT in patients with esophageal cancer. METHODS:PubMed and EMBASE databases were searched until April 12, 2018, for studies that evalua...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Han S,Kim YJ,Woo S,Suh CH,Lee JJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the diagnostic value of the combination of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET and Tc-99m pertechnetate salivary gland scintigraphy in parotid tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Seventy-two patients with benign parotid gland tumors (n = 52), malignant parotid tumors (n = 12), ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Uchida Y,Minoshima S,Kawata T,Motoori K,Nakano K,Kazama T,Uno T,Okamoto Y,Ito H

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the inconsistent supply of (99m)Tc and the increasingly widespread use of PET/CT have led to a renewed interest in PET/CT bone scans using (18)F-NaF. Recently, a 64-year-old man with biopsy-proven lung cancer underwent an (18)F-NaF PET/CT bone scan due to a shortage of (99m)Tc. Unexpectedly, multiple ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wu J,Zhu H,Ji H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of basal ganglia infarction demonstrated by radionuclide brain imaging are presented. Bilateral basal ganglia infarctions in two patients were probably related to methanol intoxication and meningoencephalitis, and unilateral basal ganglia infarctions in two other patients were presumably due to cerebral ath...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kim EE,Schacht RA,Domstad PA,DeLand FH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esthesioneuroblastoma is a rare neoplasm arising from the neural crest cells of olfactory epithelium mostly in the nasal vault. We describe the Ga DOTANOC PET/CT findings of a 44-year-old woman who was operated for right nasal mass diagnosed as paraganglioma in the past and then develop a mass in the right nasal cavit...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tripathy S,Kumar R,Kakkar A,Kumar R,Sharma P,Shamim SA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To establish camera-based methods for estimating Tc-99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (MAG3) clearance without blood sampling. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The results of renal scintigraphy with Tc-99m MAG3 obtained from 160 patients were analyzed retrospectively. Eight renogram parameters were calculated for each patient...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Inoue Y,Ohtomo K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xerostomia is a significant morbidity of radiation treatment in the management of head and neck cancers. To preserve salivary function, a surgical technique has been developed that involves the transfer of one submandibular gland to the ipsilateral submental space, where it can be shielded during radiation therapy. F-...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Makis W,Ciarallo A,Abikhzer G,Rush C,Laufer J,Stern J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-year-old man, who had been diagnosed with small lymphocytic lymphoma with cervical localization, underwent F-FDG PET/CT with iodinated contrast medium due to the appearance of cervical swelling suspected of illness relapse. PET/CT revealed intense F-FDG uptake in multiple cervical and subdiaphragmatic lymph nodes...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lavalle M,Minordi LM,Hohaus S,Manfredi R,Rufini V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 35-year-old man presented with right lower extremity numbness and weakness. CT demonstrated an irregular left parietal hypoattenuation with a punctuate calcification. MRI revealed a T1 low signal and T2 high signal lesion with extensive surrounding edema. Gadolinium-enhanced MRI showed an irregular enhancing lesion....

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zeng T,Ji ZY,Shi SS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urachal inflammation is rarely seen in adults. Two patients with suspected abdominal tumor underwent FDG PET/CT. One patient showed an irregular hypermetabolic mass anterosuperior to the bladder. The other patient showed a thick-walled cystic mass with strong FDG uptake extending from the bladder dome to the anterior ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dong A,Zuo C,Wang Y,Lu J,Zhu H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether the evaluation of tumors, lymphoid cell-rich organs, and immune-related adverse events (IRAE) with F-FDG PET/CT can predict the efficacy and outcome of immunotherapy. METHODS:Forty patients who underwent F-FDG-PET/CT scans before and after therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors from D...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nobashi T,Baratto L,Reddy SA,Srinivas S,Toriihara A,Hatami N,Yohannan TK,Mittra E

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous expected competencies of a chief nursing officer are outlined in this article including communication, ability to build relationships, expertise about the environment of healthcare and its future directions, leadership, expertise in business matters, combating bullying, encouraging shared decision making, and...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA,Miller LB

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A ureteroinguinal hernia was demonstrated on both a Tc-99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (MAG3) renal scan and a computed tomographic scan in an 81-year-old man with suspected urinary tract infection and a prior history of transurethral resection of the prostate. Ureteral hernias are relatively rare, although the ureteroin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Katz DS,Young W,Yung E

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Four consecutive patients presented with extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) in the conjunctiva. After the initial resection, long-term follow-up without additional therapy showed the clinical relapse. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography fused with ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Matsuo T,Ichimura K,Tanaka T,Kaji M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00