Solitary Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Lesion of the Cervical Spinal Cord Mimicking Malignancy on FDG PET/CT.

abstract：:Brain MRI in an 82-year-old man with presumed Bell's palsy revealed a clinically unsuspected right parotid gland mass but no other acute findings. Biopsy revealed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Staging F-FDG PET/CT revealed an FDG-avid parotid mass, abnormal FDG uptake along the course of the facial nerve from ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Achong DM,Zloty M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in adults is most commonly caused by insulinomas, which pose a diagnostic challenge to physicians, surgeons, and radiologists and require multimodality imaging for precise localization and staging. PET tracers such as F-FDOPA and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor analogs have be...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sood A,Basher RK,Kang M,Shukla J,Behera A,Walia R,Nada R,Mittal BR,Bhattacharya A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral ovarian metastasis from neuroendocrine tumor (NET) is uncommon. Ovarian NET could be primary or metastatic, and if it is bilateral, then the chances of metastatic disease are from 88% to 94%. Proper identification and appropriate management become necessary in such patients. Somatostatin receptor imaging by ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Arora S,Soundararajan R,Joshi P,Kumar R,Bal C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:to evaluate the treatment response in patients with recurrent colorectal cancer (CRC) using FDG PET/CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS:a total of 32 recurrent CRC patients (21 males, 11 females; mean age, 52.8 years) were included in this retrospective study. All patients underwent a baseline and follow-up FDG PET/CT scans...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shamim SA,Kumar R,Shandal V,Halanaik D,Kumar G,Bal CS,Malhotra A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chordoma is a rare slow-growing neoplasm of neuroectodermal origin, which frequently recurs after removal and has the potential to metastasize. We present the case of a 53-year-old man with metastasizing chordoma who underwent F-FDG and Ga-DOTA-TATE PET/CT for restaging of disease and for evaluation of targeted radion...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Derlin T,Sohns JM,Hueper K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients who had bilateral mediofrontal hypoactivity and 30 control subjects without this SPECT anomaly underwent Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT imaging. Bilateral mediofrontal hypoactivity was found in various neurologic disorders, including subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, lacunar state, chronic alcoho...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Denays R,Tondeur M,Noël P,Ham HR

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of prednisolone is one major risk factor for osteonecrosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Bone scintigraphy can be a diagnostic tool for early diagnosis. We present a case who had collar osteophytes at the bilateral femoral heads, which mimicked osteonecrosis in the planar bone scintigram. An S...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Juang JJ,Chen YH,Tsai SC,Lin WY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined regional cerebral blood flow by using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT studies in a patient who received a gunshot wound to the brain. Although the presence of the retained bullet's fragments adversely affected the quality of CT images and contraindicated MRI studies, the SPECT examination did not have the same...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Valle G,Bonetti MG,Ciritella P,Di Fazio P,Barbano F,Perrone E

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ga DOTATATE PET/CT in noninvasive characterization of synchronous pituitary neoplasm and meningioma in a 38-year-old man is illustrated. The patient presented with an MRI-detected lobulated enhancing sellar-suprasellar mass with erosion of bony sella measuring 4.5 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm (with differential diagnosis with germ ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Basu S,Ranade R,Hazarika S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental nerve neuropathy (numb chin/lip syndrome) is a sensory neuropathy presenting with numbness in the distribution of the inferior alveolar nerve/mental nerve (chin and lower lip). This is typically unilateral and can be secondary to dental disease or malignancy. When caused by malignancy, these symptoms can be eit...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kota G,Gupta P,Mintz A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was initiated to define whether Tc-99m leukocyte imaging, compared to In-111 chloride imaging, could provide additional information on the hematopoietic activity of the bone marrow in diffuse hematologic disorders. A total of 11 patients with hematologic disorders were studied both with Tc-99m leukoc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Aburano T,Yokoyama K,Shuke N,Kinuya S,Takayama T,Michigishi T,Tonami N,Hisada K

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) syndrome caused by a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET) of the pancreas detected by PET/CT using different tracers. A 43-year-old female patient with Cushing syndrome (CS) by suspected ectopic ACTH secretion underwent a 68Ga-DOTANOC and a 18F-FDG P...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Treglia G,Salomone E,Petrone G,Giaccari A,Rindi G,Rufini V

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m MDP and Tc-99m (V) DMSA images are described from a 49-year-old woman with chronic renal insufficiency complicated by osteomalacia. Clinical, biochemical, and radiologic bone profiles were compatible with osteomalacia. Osteomalacia is a condition associated with disorders in which mineralization of the organic ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sahin M,Basoglu T,Albayrak S,Canbaz F,Yapici O

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Presence of enlarged spleen using CT with absence of splenic visualization in Ga-67 citrate images in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia and splenomegaly after splenic irradiation was observed. Since Howell-Jolly bodies had not been identified in the peripheral circulation, the finding of splenic nonvisualiza...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shih WJ,Domstad PA,DeLand FH,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Tc-99m MIBI scintigraphy can be useful for preoperative localization of parathyroid adenomas, despite its limited sensitivity. To refine interpretation, the authors conducted prospective reviews of the scintigraphic studies of patients with concomitant thyroid nodular disease and revised the false-negative and ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Krausz Y,Shiloni E,Bocher M,Agranovicz S,Manos B,Chisin R

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:A 57-year-old man with a history of metastatic melanoma and sclerotic bone lesions seen on CT was referred for F NaF PET/CT evaluation of active skeletal metastases. While the bone lesions had no uptake and were therefore thought to represent sequela of previously treated disease, an unexpected area of F NaF uptake wa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jones RP,Iagaru A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced cortical benzodiazepine receptor binding potential in late images of I-iomazenil SPECT indicates neuronal damage in the cortex. We present the case of a 31-year-old woman with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) who had focal seizures in the right hand. FLA...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Taguchi Y,Takashima S,Noguchi K,Tanaka K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Tc-MDP bone scintigraphy was performed in an 88-year-old man with a history of right external oblique muscle leiomyosarcoma, which was resected 8 months ago. The static images showed abnormal tracer uptake in the region of resection bed. SPECT/CT images demonstrated that the increased activity was from a partially c...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wang T,Xing Y,Qiao W,Zhao J

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：PURPOSE:Recent studies have shown that thyroglobulin (Tg) concentration is a useful tumor marker in follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients after thyroidectomy and subsequent radioiodine (I-131) therapy. However, its role is controversial after total or near-total thyroidectomy before the first I-131 ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lin Y,Li T,Liang J,Li X,Qiu L,Wang S,Chen Y,Kang Z,Li F

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Cerebrospinal fluid-ventriculoperitoneal shunts are often used in the treatment of hydrocephalus in children. Many complications can arise that may lead to shunt malfunction, including detachment of the distal limb of the shunt. A case is presented where such a complication occurred with distal migration of the detach...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Blair K,AuCoin R,Kloiber R,Molnar CP

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer cells have abundant expression of the cell surface protein prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). In recent years, PET radioligands detecting this protein has therefore gained substantial interest in prostate cancer staging. It turned out that PSMA expression can be evident in both malignant and be...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pedersen MA,Bouchelouche K,Vendelbo MH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the block sequential regularized expectation maximization (BSREM) algorithm with the ordered subsets expectation maximization (OSEM) algorithm and to evaluate how different penalty factors (b values) influence image quality and SUV measurements. METHODS:We analyzed data from 78 prostate cancer patie...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Baratto L,Duan H,Ferri V,Khalighi M,Iagaru A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an F-18 FDG PET scan which demonstrates 3 synchronous primary malignancies. The patient is a 61-year-old man who presented with weight loss and dysphagia. He was initially diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the midesophagus, and was then found to have an adenocarcinoma in the right lung. A staging PE...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mittra E,Vasanawala M,Niederkohr R,Rodriguez C,Segall G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most common cancers affecting men worldwide, with a high recurrence rate after therapy. Ga-PSMA-11 and F-fluciclovine are PET imaging tracers for the detection of recurrence sites in PC patients. Ga-PSMA-11 is a membrane antigen overexpressed by tumor cells, whereas F-fluciclovine ta...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pernthaler B,Nazerani Hooshmand T,Igrec J,Kvaternik H,Aigner RM

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Kimura disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder that occurs mainly in Asians. We present a patient with pulmonary Kimura disease assessed by whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT examination and proved by pathologic findings. Chest x-ray detected left pulmonary hilum enlargement in a 49-year-old Chinese man. CT showed a soft ti...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Li D,Li YJ,Zhan FH,Dang CJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m labeled red blood cell (RBC) preparations are gaining wide acceptance in the diagnosis and localization of gastrointestinal bleeding. A major requirement of the radiopharmaceutical is that the percentage of Tc-99m attached to red cells in the injected dose must be extremely high, since free pertechnetate is sec...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Benedetto AR,Nusynowitz ML

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00