The Role of SPECT/CT of Foot and Ankle in the Evaluation of Heel Pain.

abstract：:We report the case of a 28-year-old woman presenting behavior disorders of subacute onset. She was referred in our institution for a suspicion of limbic encephalitis. F-FDG PET/CT did not show any mesiotemporal abnormality but depicted a decreased uptake of bilateral parietal and occipital lobes. This atypical pattern...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Moubtakir A,Dejust S,Godard F,Messaoud L,Morland D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) causes rapid sequestration and destruction of thrombocytes by the spleen, liver, bone marrow, and reticuloendothelial elements of other organs. The usefulness of multiple radionuclide functional imaging procedures in the management of a 34-year-old woman with chronic ITP, two ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harwood SJ,Carroll RG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer is a rare thyroid cancer, accounts for approximately 5% of all thyroid cancer cases, and is associated with a poor prognosis. It commonly metastasizes to regional lymph nodes, lung, and bones. We present a patient with poorly differentiated thyroid cancer with unusual extensive spr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ma HY,Moadel R,Freeman LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of small renal masses is increasing, and preservation of healthy kidney tissue along surgical removal is a challenge, especially if the tumor is small or nonexophytic. To facilitate the location and complete excision of the tumor during surgery, we have implemented the application of the radio-guided occult ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Betancourt Hernández JA,Vera Donoso C,Martinez-Sarmiento M,Monserrat JJ,Bello Jarque P,Boronat Tormo F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary breast lymphoma is an extremely rare disease. Primary breast mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is even rarer, and bilateral involvement is exceptional. We report on the F-FDG PET/CT findings in a patient with primary bilateral breast MALT lymphoma. F-FDG PET/CT showed hypermetabolic masses in b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kim DH,Jeong JY,Lee SW,Lee J,Ahn BC

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic pain is an entity that can be difficult to diagnose etiologically. Once the cardiac origin has been ruled out, the rheumatologic, neoplastic, and infectious causes have to be taken into account. We present the case of a patient with atypical chest pain after triple-bypass surgery in whom F-FDG PET/CT scan sho...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Oliván-Sasot P,Martínez-Sanchis B,Sánchez-Vañó R,Yepes-Agudelo AM,Bello-Arques P

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the authors described a 31-year-old woman with differentiated thyroid cancer is presented who had radioiodine uptake in the distribution of the tracheobronchial tree in association with symptoms of an acute respiratory tract infection. As expected, the uptake was transient and disappeared on the follo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bakheet SM,Hammami MM,Powe J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old man presented to our hospital for a 2-month history of worsening feet and left hand swelling pain. Computed tomography reconstruction image and sagittal images of the left foot demonstrated multiple and irregular bone destruction. Orthopedic surgeon suspected tuberculosis or primary skeletal malignancy. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Qiu L,Chen Y,Huang Z,Zhu Y,Wen Q

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case is described in which in spite of clinical, scintigraphic and histologic findings strongly supportive of a diagnosis of "hyperacute rejection," recovery of renal function occurred. These findings are in contrast to the current literature in which it is generally accepted that a renal allograft showing ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sacks GA,Sandler MP,Partain CL

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic epithelioid angiomyolipoma (AML) is rare. Although generally epithelioid AML shows benign biological behavior, it can occasionally have malignant potential. In this study, we report a case of 2 hepatic epithelioid AMLs with different F-FDG uptake; one is intensely FDG avid, and the other is non-FDG avid. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Li B,Hou J,Yu H,Shi H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is a relatively newly recognized subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The common histopathologic features are myocyte necrosis without significant inflammation. Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy can be associated with connective tissue disorders but can also be triggered ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pelissou C,Lerolle N,Labeyrie C,Durand E,Besson FL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-111 WBC scintigraphy in a woman with relapsed acute lymphoid leukemia demonstrated normal uptake of white blood cells by the liver and spleen, but virtually absent bone marrow activity. Tc-99m SC imaging confirmed normal marrow function and distribution. A bone marrow biopsy revealed mildly hypocellular, regenerati...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Achong DM,Oates E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examples of Ga-67 and Tl-201 scans in AIDS patients performed at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York are presented. Use of these methods is the adopted approach at this institution in AIDS patients for localizing sites of tumor or infection involvement. A Ga-67 scan is the most common nuclear medicin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Turoglu HT,Akisik MF,Naddaf SY,Omar WS,Kempf JS,Abdel-Dayem HM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone metastasis developing after differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is common, and in most cases, this condition leads to osteolysis. However, treatment of bone metastases in DTC patients is a great challenge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of percutaneous osteoplasty (POP) c...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Song HJ,Wu CG,Xue YL,Xu YH,Qiu ZL,Luo QY

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case in which, for the first time, the superior mesenteric artery caused an appearance mimicking vascular tumor on a kidney radionuclide angiogram (RNA) obtained posteriorly, is reported. A subsequent contrast arteriogram showed that the superior mesenteric artery caused that appearance and confusion with possible v...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Elgazzar AH,Fernandez-Ulloa M,Powers GT

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:We report the case of a 45-year-old woman with a history of right breast reconstruction with silicone implant for breast cancer. An 18F-FDG PET/CT performed several years later revealed the presence of 18F-FDG-avid nodules at the periphery of the silicone implant, in the right internal mammary chain, and in th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Fernandes Vieira V,Dubruc E,Raffoul W,Prior JO,Meyer M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal domain of fibronectin has a fibrin binding site and a site for covalent cross-linking to fibrin. This fibrin binding domain was isolated from human recombinant fibronectin and labeled with In-111; the final molecular weight was 12 kD. It was applied to a pilot study of 62 patients; 30 who were thoug...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rosenthall L,Leclerc J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dedicated cadmium-zinc-telluride cardiac cameras have been shown to provide accurate measurements of absolute myocardial blood flow and flow reserve when PET is not available. We report the case of a 66-year-old woman who underwent 1-day stress/rest myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for coronary artery disease (CAD) ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bailly M,Thibault F,Courtehoux M,Metrard G,Ribeiro MJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective examination of the bone scans of 425 pediatric oncology patients was undertaken to determine the incidence of photon-deficient (cold) lesions in this population. Eight patients (1.8%) had cold lesions due to a wide variety of tumors. Of the tumor types, six had not been previously reported to give cold...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Weingrad T,Heyman S,Alavi A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old woman confined to bed and wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis (MS) presented with complaints of sharp, bilateral hip pain (left greater than right) that radiated to the thighs with point tenderness to trochanteric palpation. She had received several courses of high-dose intravenous corticosteroids for M...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Caruso FA,Toney MA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of bleeding scintigraphy is to localize the site of origin of a hemorrhage to within general regions of the large or small bowel. Activity is typically seen to extravasate from the blood pool into the lumen, and the collection of activity then moves on sequential images, as a result of the cathartic action of...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Krynyckyi BR,Zuckier LS,Tatlidil R,Chen WT,Kim CK,Freeman LM

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The uptake of Tc-99m tetrofosmin (TF) is reported in a case of parathyroid adenoma. A 65-year-old woman was studied on different days with TF, Tc-99m sestamibi (MIBI) and Tl-201 chloride (Tl). TF and MIBI injections were preceded by oral administration of potassium perchlorate. Clear identification of the adenoma was ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mansi L,Rambaldi PF,Marino G,Pecori B,Del Vecchio E

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：PURPOSE:F-FDG PET has been used for vascular disease, but its role in deep vein thrombosis (DVT) remains prospectively unexplored. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Whole-body F-FDG PET/CT scans were performed in patients 1 to 10 weeks after onset of symptomatic DVT (n = 12) and in control subjects without DVT (n = 24). The metabo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rondina MT,Lam UT,Pendleton RC,Kraiss LW,Wanner N,Zimmerman GA,Hoffman JM,Hanrahan C,Boucher K,Christian PE,Butterfield RI,Morton KA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of osteomalacia with multiple asymmetrically distributed pseudofractures (Looser's zones) simulating metastases is presented. Radiographic correlation is essential to increase specificity and avoid misinterpretation. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Velchik MG,Makler PT Jr,Alavi A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old woman had fever, rash, and joint pain. Physical examination revealed multiple enlarged lymph nodes. A possibility of lymphoma was considered and FDG PET/CT was performed, which demonstrated elevated FDG activity not only in many lymph nodes but also in the spleen and liver. However, adult-onset Still dis...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cai L,Chen Y,Huang Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent data suggest that diffuse gliomas carrying mutations in codon 34 of the H3 histone family 3A protein represent a very rare, distinct subgroup of IDH-wild type malignant astrocytic gliomas. However, characteristics detectable by MRI and F-FET PET in H3-G34-mutant gliomas are unknown. METHODS:We report...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vettermann FJ,Felsberg J,Reifenberger G,Hasselblatt M,Forbrig R,Berding G,la Fougère C,Galldiks N,Schittenhelm J,Weis J,Albert NL,Schüller U

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare kind of obstructive jaundice caused by compression on the common bile duct due to an inflated Foley catheter balloon placed in the duodenum after Suguira surgery for bleeding esophageal vesicles secondary to portal hypertension is presented. After deflating the balloon, the obstruction was relieved. Tc-99m HIDA...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Abu Zidan FM,Kumar MS,Hassan IM,Samhan M,Dadah S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an interesting image of the inadvertent arterial injection of I-MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine) in a 36-year-old man with hereditary, metastatic pheochromocytoma, who underwent a diagnostic whole-body scan for the evaluation of extent of disease before possible I-MIBG therapy. During the tracer injection in ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lohrmann C,Carrasquillo JA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00