Misleading findings on indium-111 leukocyte images.

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：:O-(2-fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (FET) PET/CT is a promising imaging modality for brain tumor imaging because of its reported high sensitivity for biologically active tumor tissue. We present a case of biopsy-proven neurosarcoidosis showing FET uptake. It is an important cause of false-positive uptake on FET PET/CT. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chan M,Hsiao E

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyze the biodistribution of Ga-DOTA-TATE in the normal tissues and uptake in benign, indeterminate, and malignant lesions in a population of patients with known neuroendocrine tumors (NET) using semiquantitative standardized uptake values (SUV) measurements. METHODS:One hundred four consecutively scanned...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Moradi F,Jamali M,Barkhodari A,Schneider B,Chin F,Quon A,Mittra ES,Iagaru A

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES:The aim of the study was to examine the patterns of lymph node metastases from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and compare the laterality of lymphatic metastasis in cervical, supraclavicular, and paratracheal areas using F-FDG PET/CT. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The data of 75 patients who u...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu CJ,Cheng JC,Lee JM,Cheng MF,Tzen KY,Yen RF

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cavernous hemangioma of the liver presented as an area of increased activity on an isotope bone scan. A review of the literature fails to reveal any previous reports of this phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Burkhalter JL,Morano JU,Patel BR

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was to determine whether the Tc-99m red blood cells (Tc-99m RBC) method has a true advantage over the Tc-99m sulfur colloid (Tc-99m SC) technique in a busy clinical practice for detecting and localizing lower gastrointestinal bleeding sites. METHODS:Three hundred fifty-nine consecut...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ponzo F,Zhuang H,Liu FM,Lacorte LB,Moussavian B,Wang S,Alavi A

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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

abstract：:The literature on gallium imaging in mycosis fungoides is limited and conflicting. A case of mycosis fungoides with increased uptake of Ga-67 in clinically noninfected skin lesions is reported. The literature regarding mycosis fungoides and gallium imaging is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nishimi L,Chen DC,Ansari AN,Siegel ME

更新日期：1988-02-01 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:Fully automated synthesis of 11C-labeled 2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-fluorophenyl)tropane (11C CFT) as a dopamine transporter positron emission tomography (PET) tracer is performed with Sep-Pak purification, which cannot separate 11C CFT from nor-β-CFT and will result in the residual precursor nor-β-CFT in the final ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Huang T,Wang H,Tang G,Liang X,Shi X,Zhang X

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old man underwent excisional biopsy of an anterior mediastinal mass that revealed squamous cell carcinoma of thymic origin. Immunohistochemistry revealed insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor positivity, which has been associated with worse prognosis. Restaging FDG PET/CT revealed extensive soft tissue and o...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： VanDreel A,Patel D,Emmadi R,Lu Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary Effusion Lymphoma (PEL) is a rare form of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma that involves serous body cavities (pleural, pericardial, or peritoneal) with lymphomatous effusions in the absence of lymphadenopathy or organomegaly. Although it was seen mostly in HIV-positive patients, it has recently been reported in HIV-negat...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Makis W,Stern J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 25-year-old woman presented with neutropenic fever after chemotherapy for the relapse of acute biphenotypic leukemia. Gallium-67 scintigraphy for the detection of infectious foci demonstrated a unique pattern of numerous foci with intense and varying-sized radioactivity spreading throughout the b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wu YC,Hsieh TC,Sun SS,Lo WC,Yen KY,Kao CH

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Incidental findings on PET CT studies are common. The distribution of Ga-DOTATATE is dependent on cell surface expression of somatostatin receptors, which may be pathologic or physiologic. Osteoporosis circumscripta is the early lytic phase of Paget disease associated with well-defined osteopenia, most commonly seen w...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gandy N,Ordidge KL,Arshad M,Win Z

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The need for a low-iodine diet (LID) to maximize the results of radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU), nuclear medicine thyroid scintigraphy, and ultimately treatment of thyroid cancer patients is widely accepted. Failure to follow the prescribed diet can alter RAIU results, thyroid scan findings, and poststudy mana...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hinds SR 2nd,Stack AL,Stocker DJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac involvement is rare in neurofibromatosis 1 (NF 1). Very few cases of cardiac masses in this entity have been documented in the world literature. We present the F-FDG PET/CT findings in a rare case of cardiac plexiform neurofibromatosis. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： D'souza MM,Sondhi P,D'souza P,Sharma R,Jaimini A,Pandey S,Mondal A,Tripathi RP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scar involvement is a rare but characteristic cutaneous manifestation of sarcoidosis. The concurrent presence of FDG-avid lymphadenopathy and scar involvement (the "scar sign") is a useful finding on FDG PET/CT to suggest sarcoidosis, especially when biopsy specimens are difficult to obtain. A 46-year-old woman who pr...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lu SJ,Lee VK,Loo SW

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Increased participation in sports by the general public has led to an increase in sports-induced injuries, including stress fractures, shin splints, arthritis, and a host of musculotendinous maladies. Bone scintigraphy with Tc-99m MDP has been used with increasing frequency in detecting stress fractures, but this stud...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Brill DR

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:No study has analyzed a sizeable cohort that comprised solely peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) patients for the diagnostic and prognostic performance of F-FDG PET/CT for bone marrow (BM) involvement. This study aimed to investigate the utility of PET/CT for the identification of BM involvement and to explore i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Abe Y,Kitadate A,Usui Y,Narita K,Kobayashi H,Miura D,Takeuchi M,Oʼuchi E,Oʼuchi T,Matsue K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of isolated splenic metastasis from ovarian cancer detected with 18F-FDG PET/CT. A 66-year-old woman with ovarian cancer was referred for 18F-FDG PET/CT to determine the cause of elevated serum CA-125 levels about 48 months after surgery. 18F-FDG PET/CT showed focal, intense uptake in the spleen, with...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lee DH,Yoon JK,Lee SJ,Jo KS,Yoon SH,An YS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) by a malignant tumor depends on the blood glucose level. The authors present a striking case that illustrates the importance of blood glucose measurement in F-18 FDG positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging in a patient with a solitary pulmonary nodule. With t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ojha B,Bartley SC,Gundlapalli S,Mountz JM

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:The omentum is a rare metastatic site for prostatic adenocarcinoma. We present a case of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, with progressive omentum invasive prostate cancer identified on prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT scan. Omental biopsy revealed metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, and ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ladwa R,Gustafson S,McCaffrey E,Miles K,O'Byrne K

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a patient with diffuse pyogenic pericarditis and focal myoendocarditis initially detected using In-111 WBC scintigraphy. The patient was in septic shock after hemodialysis for the treatment of chronic renal failure. This was preceded by clinical signs and symptoms of pericarditis thought to be viral...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Coupland DB,Terriff B,Fung AY,Sartori C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one patients (25 male, 16 female) were studied by RNCA in our institution. There were 42 rest studies and 24 stress studies (66 studies total). Sixteen patients were normal, 15 had ASHD, seven had a cardiomyopathy, and three had left-sided valvular regurgitation. Each study was preprocessed using both the standa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Robeson W,Alcan KE,Graham MC,Palestro C,Oliver FH,Benua RS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A highly variable normal appearance of the sternal area makes interpretation difficult on planar bone imaging. These normal variants occur especially in the area above the xiphoid process of the sternum in which an oval photopenic area on anterior planar images may be seen. This finding is most likely caused by...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Han JK,Shih WJ,Stipp V,Magoun S

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00