Earlier Phases of Bone Scintigraphy Can Better Delineate the Extent of Soft Tissue Involvement of Bone Metastasis.

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：:Various etiologies could cause focal I accumulation. Hepatic cyst is one of these etiologies. Here we present a 59-year-old man with a history of papillary thyroid cancer resection who received radioiodine therapy for three times. The images after the I therapy of the second and third time showed variable activity upt...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shao F,Tang J,Lan X

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of combined hepatobiliary-lung imaging in the diagnosis and evaluation of a subphrenic process is described. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： LaManna MM,Candy A,Boland CN,Pickering NJ,Barnes AU,Parker JA

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether the patterns of striatal dopamine depletion could provide prognostic information on the clinical profiles of early-stage Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:Approximately 634 patients with drug-naive PD who underwent F-FP-CIT PET scans were followed up for at least 2 years. After quantifying...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chung SJ,Yoo HS,Lee HS,Oh JS,Kim JS,Sohn YH,Lee PH

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of rest gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and intraventricular synchronism, to identify heart failure (HF) patients most likely to experience cardiac events. METHODS:We studied 165 patients with left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 4...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Peix A,Karell J,Rodríguez L,Cabrera LO,Padrón K,Carrillo R,Mena E,Fernández Y

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to map the lymphatic drainage patterns of breast cancer with lymphoscintigraphy to evaluate the variability of drainage and to determine whether lymphatic mapping can help to increase the certainty of breast cancer staging. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Fifty women with breast cancer (mea...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mudun A,Aslay I,Aygen M,Muslumanoglu M,Bozfakioglu Y,Cantez S

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Mammographic screening has led to the identification of more women with nonpalpable breast cancer, many of them to be treated with breast-preserving surgery. To accomplish radical tumor excision, adequate localization techniques such as radioactive seed localization (RSL) are required. For RSL, a radioactive...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pouw B,de Wit-van der Veen LJ,van Duijnhoven F,Rutgers EJ,Stokkel MP,Valdés Olmos RA,Vrancken Peeters MJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In normal aging persons, oxygen and glucose consumption progressively decreases with reduced cerebral blood flow (CBF), which could be responsible for age-related changes in cognitive functions. A data processing model with the use of Tc-99m SPECT of the human brain has been developed and found to be sensitive ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dormehl IC,Jordaan B,Oliver DW,Croft S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man with a pacemaker who was admitted for evaluation of fever was found to have a redundant loop of the ventricular lead and a vegetation attached to it. An FDG PET/CT revealed a focus of FDG uptake at the ventricular lead loop. Surgical extraction of the pacemaker device confirmed a Propionibacterium ac...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gorospe L,Miguelena-Hycka J,Martín-García M,Ajuria-Illarramendi O,Almeida-Aróstegui NA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a transient, unilateral reverse ventilation/perfusion (V/P) mismatch in a patient with squamous cell lung cancer. The right lung was well perfused but not ventilated (unilateral reverse V/P mismatch). However, lung imaging performed 3 days later demonstrated the absence of both perfusion and ventila...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Watanabe N,Hirano T,Inoue T,Matsumoto M,Oriuchi N,Tateno M,Matsumoto H,Nagamachi Y,Endo K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide angiography of the abdominal aorta provides hemodynamic information of the kidneys, aorta and aneurysm as well as the location and extent of aneurysm. Visualization of early abnormal activity in the pelvic region simultaneously with iliac artery visualization is thought to be a specific finding of active ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bunko H,Seto H,Tonami N,Hisada K

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-month-old female child with a history of stage IV favorable biology neuroblastoma with a 123-I MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine scan) avid adrenal mass, with retroperitoneal nodal extension and bony metastasis, was in complete remission after intense multimodal therapy. Seventeen months after diagnosis a surveillanc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Schindler T,Yu C,Rossleigh M,Pereira J,Cohn R

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old patient with severe hypokalemia (approximately 1.7 mEq/L) and muscular weakness had a very high serum renin level. No renin-producing tumor was found and she was diagnosed with Bartter Syndrome The parathyroid hormone level was high due to concomitant renal calcium loss. Tc-99m-DTPA captopril scintigraph...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zelmanovitz F,Fregapani JA,Zelmanovitz T,Spiro BL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tl-201 and Tc-99m subtraction imaging is a well-established technique for detecting parathyroid adenomas. We report a case of a brown tumor of the upper sternum mimicking an ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma on Tl-201 and Tc-99m subtraction imaging in a patient with hyperparathyroidism. This brown tumor showed T...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kumar R,Gupta R,Malhotra A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 104 chest radionuclide angiography (CRNA) studies establishes the utility of this procedure in the evaluation of pulmonary malignancies and benign masses. Remarkable abnormalities in the perfusion of the lungs were identified in 36 (58%) of 62 cases that were not predictably normal or predi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hartshorne MF,Bauman JM,Telepak RJ,Karl RD,Cawthon MA,Howard WH 3rd,Bunker SR

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：:Findings on cholescintigraphy in gallbladder carcinoma are described in five patients. Four patients presenting with acute cholecystitis had nonvisualization of the gallbladder with normal hepatoenteric transit time. One of these had a large portal mass and two had liver metastasis as additional findings. The fifth pa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Colletti PM,Ralls PW,Siegel ME,Halls JM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described who demonstrated accumulation of Tc-99m-sulfur colloid in both the lung and kidney following treatment for disseminated intravascular coagulation. This phenomenon has been demonstrated experimentally in animals following the induction of disseminated intravascular coagulation, but to our knowled...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Smith FW,Brown RG,Ash JM,Gilday DL

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indium-111 octreotide scintigraphy is a useful investigation in the diagnosis and staging neuroendocrine or nonendocrine malignancies such as carcinoid, granulomas, small cell lung cancer, medullary thyroid carcinoma, and others. Tumors with large numbers of somatostatin receptors can be accurately imaged and this can...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ha L,Mansberg R,Nguyen D,Bui C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who presented with weight loss and recurrent left lower lobe pneumonia was diagnosed with endobronchial carcinoid. Chest CT scan demonstrated extensive mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy suggesting stage IIIB disease, but radionuclide imaging with In-111 pentetreotide and F-18 FDG PET diagnosed 2 distinct...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Avram AM,Mackie GC,Schneider BJ,Kalemkerian GP,Shulkin BL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of thyroid nodules in children is often difficult, especially in pretreated patients with metastatic disease. In osteosarcoma patients, Tc-MDP SPECT/CT is used for primary and follow-up staging. Bone and soft tissue metastases can be revealed because of Tc-MDP imaging of osteoid-producing metastases...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Roll W,Weckesser M,Pöppelmann M,Schiborr M,Schäfers M,Rahbar K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPECT brain imaging using Iofetamine HC1 I-123 (IMP) has a great potential in the evaluation of various neurologic disorders. Transverse, coronal, and sagittal sectional IMP images obtained using a single head rotating gamma camera system are correlated with corresponding normal brain slices in this atlas. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Falls M,Park CH,Madsen M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case history of a patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is described. The underlaying disease proved to be essential thrombocytosis. Congential elliptocytosis was also present. The value of the conventional liver scan, percutaneous splenoportoscintigraphy and isotopic phlebography of the inferior vena cava in th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Thijs LG,Heidendal GA,Huijgens PC,Mol JJ,Verkuyl M

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Renal biopsy is crucial for management of lupus nephritis. However, it is invasive and can cause bleeding and infection. In our previous study, we developed a semiquantitative method for gallium renal imaging and demonstrated a good correlation between the left kidney-to-spine ratio (K/S ratio) and the results ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tsai SC,Hsieh TY,Huang PW,Lin WY

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPECT using N-Isopropyl I-123 IMP was performed, as part of a neuropsychiatric evaluation, on 10 patients with the DSM III-R diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and 6 patients from a non-ADHD mixed psychiatric group used as controls for comparison. Mean regional I-123 IMP SPECT region of inter...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sieg KG,Gaffney GR,Preston DF,Hellings JA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old man with Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome (DDMS) was admitted to the hospital with increasing frequency of epileptic seizures. Physical examination revealed mental retardation, left facial asymmetry, and left-sided spastic hemiparesis. Dysdiadochokinesia on the left upper limb was detected, and there was no...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Demir Y,Sürücü E,Çilingir V,Bulut MD,Tombul T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-week old jaundiced female underwent hepatobiliary scintigraphy using technetium-99m disofenin. Early images suggested right-sided cardiac activity. A nearly symmetric, bilobed liver with left-sided predominance was discovered. No biliary ducts, gallbladder, or small bowel activity were demonstrated up to 24 hours ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sullivan RF,Madell SJ,Oates E,Sarno RC

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: A 50-year-old-man with abdominal pain, who had undergone aortic aneurysm reconstructive surgery (aortic graft) 3 years before, was admitted to the hospital. A CT scan showed findings suggestive of perigraft infection. Scintigraphy with 99mTc-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO)-labeled leukocytes confirmed the dia...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cortés J,Villaverde J,Garrido M,Pombo M,Ruibal A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00