Incidental Finding of Intrathyroid Metastases of Prostatic Cancer on 18F-Choline PET/CT.

abstract：:A patient is described with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and erythematous skin nodules suspected to be erythema nodosum. The patient underwent serial fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET), which demonstrated normalization of FDG uptake by the lymphoma after 2 cycles of chemotherapy, but there was new abn...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cheong KA,Rodgers NG,Kirkwood ID

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Tc-99m sestamibi imaging was performed in two patients with multiple myeloma. Focal areas of increased uptake in one patient and diffuse skeletal uptake in the second patient were found. Tc-99m sestamibi appears to identify bone marrow and osteolytic involvement in multiple myeloma. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Di Gennaro F,Catalano L,Pace L,de Renzo A,Pinto AM,del Vecchio S,Rotoli B,Salvatore M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year old woman had a left breast mass. Biopsy showed invasive ductal carcinoma. A PET/CT scan demonstrated hypermetabolism in the left breast and atypical heterogeneously increased uptake throughout the skeleton as well as a minimally FDG-avid right adrenal myelolipoma. PET/CT 4 months later after 6 cycles of neo...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Manov JJ,Diaz-Bode A,Kuker R

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Remnant thyroid ablation is crucial in the management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. However, the optimal dose of radioactive I for ablation is still controversial. This study aimed to compare the success rate of different activities of I for postoperative remnant ablation in randomized contr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Song X,Meng Z,Jia Q,Zhang L,Xu K,Tan J,Zhang G,Zheng W,Li X,Zhang J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a disease that is widely distributed in underdeveloped tropical regions, with cases also occurring in the United States. The bone scan findings in a patient with leprosy who had developed a reactional state of the disease, erythema nodosum leprosum, are presented. His scan showed bilaterally symmetrical dou...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Datz FL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of F-FDG uptake of portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT) for predicting progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:The study retrospectively included 166 HCC patients with PV...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lee JW,Hwang SH,Kim DY,Han KH,Yun M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal perfusion and function can be determined by renography using Tc-99m DTPA. However, the high dose of tracer necessary for scintiangiography may result in inaccurate syringe-count determinations when measured by the gamma camera necessary for calculating the glomerular filtration rate by a camera technique. This r...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gates GF

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:Plummer's disease (autonomous goiter) presents a spectrum of forms, raging from solitary autonomous thyroid nodules to numerous small autonomous areas, and from unequivocal to servere hyperthyroidism. Progression is often very slow, but data on long-term follow up are scare, contradictory and limited to solitary nodul...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wiener JD,de Vries AA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ga-DOTATATE imaging is commonly used for the detection of metastatic disease in neuroendocrine tumors. We present a case of a 69-year-old woman postsurgery for lung carcinoid tumor in which sequential follow-up Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT studies identified focal hepatic uptake that was presumed to represent a liver metastasis...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hod N,Levin D,Anconina R,Taragin BH,Dudnik J,Lantsberg S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallbladder uptake is occasionally encountered with commonly used nonhepatobiliary radiopharmaceuticals. Identification of the biliary tract by a nonhepatobiliary agent can identify disease, such as uptake of labeled white blood cells. However, in most cases, gallbladder uptake of nonhepatobiliary tracers is not due t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Niederkohr RD,McDougall IR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of veno-occlusive disease of the liver of unknown etiology is reported. In the case, the gross abnormality of liver parenchyma, ascites, and colloid shift to spleen, bones, and lungs found on a Tc-99m SC liver-spleen scan, and confirmed on liver biopsy, resolved completely on follow-up. Histologic correlation a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Joshi MJ,Ford PV,Vogel JM,Lutrin CL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant cell tumor of tendon sheath (GCTTS) is benign mesenchymal neoplasm, and it rarely induces hypophosphatemia. We report a 49-year-old woman with suspicious tumor-induced osteomalacia underwent Ga-DOTA-TATE PET/CT to identify potential causative tumor, which showed a hypermetabolic soft tissue nodule in the right f...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jia C,Shao F,Yang M,Qin C,Lan X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man with newly diagnosed prostate cancer PSA 274 ng/mL, Gleason 4+3, T-stage 3b) underwent Ga-PSMA PET/CT for staging with follow-up scans 6 and 13 weeks after androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) initiation. Six weeks after ADT initiation, lymph node metastases observed at staging showed metabolic and rad...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zacho HD,Petersen LJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapid expansion of robot-assisted surgical procedures, the need for robot-compliant image guidance technologies has also increased. Examples hereof are the integrated firefly fluorescence camera, the drop-in ultrasound probe, and the recently introduced DROP-IN gamma probe. Combined with Ga-prostate-specific ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： van Leeuwen FWB,van Oosterom MN,Meershoek P,van Leeuwen PJ,Berliner C,van der Poel HG,Graefen M,Maurer T

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:Lower neck uptake in bone scan is hard to interpret because of superposition of several structures. Single photon emission computerized tomography can be beneficial, as illustrated in this patient with a laryngeal tumor. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mortelmans LA,DeRoo MJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of mucinous cystic neoplasm which showed FDG accumulation in its cyst wall. MRI revealed that this tumor had repeated intracystic hemorrhage. Inhomogeneous FDG accumulation was found in the cyst wall. The epithelium was focally denuded and ovarian-like stroma with macrophage migration, which phagocyto...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sato M,Hiyama T,Kato K,Shirasu T,Yoshimi F,Nagai H,Saito H,Iijima T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five pioneers had a huge impact on the quality movement in health care in the United States. Ernest Codman contributed in many ways, including his focus on outcome analysis. Avidis Donabedian is known for his focus on the 3 domains of structure, process, and outcome in health care. Walter Shewhart is known especially ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been numerous initiatives to improve quality and safety in surgery. Goal-directed fluid therapy and a quality bundle for emergency laparotomy surgery are two of them. The establishment of a Universal Protocol to prevent the wrong procedure, the wrong patient having a procedure, or the wrong site for a proce...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2017-03-01 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:Considerable discrepancies are observed between clinical staging and pathological staging after surgical resection in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In this study, we examined the relationships between tumor SUVs on FDG PET/CT and aggressive pathological features in resected ESCC patie...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lim CH,Park YJ,Shin M,Cho YS,Choi JY,Lee KH,Hyun SH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the results of F-FDG PET/CT of 3 patients referred to our institution during the single day of Monday, March 23, 2020, for an initial assessment of cancer extension or for the therapeutic evaluation of chemotherapy of neoplastic pathology, with no obvious infectious or respiratory symptoms at the time of e...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Grellier JF,Lussato D,Guernou M,Queneau M,Bonardel G

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：PURPOSE OF THE REPORT:Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is an effective treatment for advanced neuroendocrine tumors (NET); however, long-term survival data are scarce. The aim of this study is to determine long-term survival in patients with metastatic midgut NET, according to response to PRRT. PATIENTS AN...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yalchin M,Oliveira A,Theocharidou E,Pencharz D,Navalkissoor S,Quigley AM,Walker M,Caplin M,Toumpanakis C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two case reports of malignant pleural effusion from breast carcinoma, with scans showing a striking accumulation of Tc-99m MDP, are presented. The Tc-99m MDP was in the pleural fluid and not in the pleura as demonstrated by shift with gravity. Possible mechanisms of malignant effusion accumulation of Tc-99m MDP are su...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lamki L,Cohen P,Driedger A

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes an I-131 whole-body scan with false-positive uptake at the site of a nose ring in a patient with follicular thyroid cancer. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dick C,Mudun A,Alazraki NP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00