Assessment of left ventricular function in aortic insufficiency using echocardiography, gated scintigraphy and contrast angiography.

abstract：:Unusual features of iodine-131 uptake during thyroid cancer scintigraphy may lead to a false-positive diagnosis of residual or recurrent malignancy and associated metastasis. Radiographic or cross-sectional imaging correlation should help to differentiate truly functioning thyroid lesions from physiological or artifac...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nguyen BD,Roarke MC

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Schmorl's node (SN) is a common entity characterized by protrusion of intervertebral disc material through a break in the subchondral end plate of a vertebral body. They can show increased 99mTC methylene diphosphonate uptake on bone scintigraphy mimicking metastasis and can be symptomatic. Differentiation of SN from ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Singh H,Sharma P,Naswa N,Nazar AH,Khangembam BC,Sahoo MK,Kumar R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of ¹⁸F-choline PET/CT (18FCH-PET/CT) in restaging patients previously treated by radical prostatectomy for a prostate cancer, presenting with biochemical relapse during follow-up (FU). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Three hundred thirty-one patients referred to us from ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Marzola MC,Chondrogiannis S,Ferretti A,Grassetto G,Rampin L,Massaro A,Castellucci P,Picchio M,Al-Nahhas A,Colletti PM,Marcolongo A,Rubello D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an incidental detection of a meningioma on [F]-2'-fluoro-5-methyl-1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyluracil (F-FMAU) PET/CT scan that was performed during a prospective investigation of F-FMAU PET/CT for targeted biopsy of potential sites of tumor in men with suspected prostate cancer based on elevated prostate-spe...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Varghese B,Velez E,Desai B,Jadvar H

更新日期：2018-07-01 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-67 urinary excretion was examined in 59 patients. The 72-hour urinary excretion rate ranged from 4.3 to 67.8% of the injected dose. Within the first 24 hours, 60.9% of the 72-hour urinary excretion was excreted. There was no significant difference in the Ga-67 urinary excretion rate between males and females, nor b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nakano S,Hasegawa Y,Ibuka K,Hashizume T,Noguchi A,Kojima J,Sasakuma F,Ishigami S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 23-year-old man with an encapsulated, anaerobic splenic abscess is reported. Both the In-111 leukocyte and Tc-99m sulfur colloid scans demonstrated an intrasplenic defect. The Ga-67 citrate scan revealed uptake in the rim of the abscess only where the abscess cavity was relatively photon-deficient. The com...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ammann W,Chiu BK,Wright JM

更新日期：1986-03-01 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 describe a patient with labile hypertension and elevated metanephrines who underwent 123Iodine metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) for the detection of a possible paraganglioma. The scan revealed markedly abnormal diffusely increased activity in the right renal parenchyma. A CT angiogram showed severe renal artery steno...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jordan A,Seltzer M,Siegel A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetabular labral tears are an increasingly recognized cause of hip pain in young adults with hip dysplasia and older patients with degenerative disease of the hips. METHODS:The authors analyzed retrospectively bone scintigraphy in 27 patients with acetabular labral tears diagnosed by MRI/arthroscopy. Analy...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bruce W,Van Der Wall H,Storey G,Loneragan R,Pitsis G,Kannangara S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with myocardial sarcoidosis are presented, both of whom underwent SPECT imaging with Tl-201 and Ga-67. The first had Ga-67 myocardial uptake with a Tl-201 defect, which disappeared with corticosteroid therapy. The second had multiple Tl-201 defects without Ga-67 uptake, which persisted despite corticoster...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kurata C,Sakata K,Taguchi T,Fukumoto Y,Miyata H,Aoshima S,Yamazaki N

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperplasia of the parathyroid glands usually is treated surgically by total parathyroidectomy, which would deprive the patient of the parathormone essential for calcium metabolism. The postoperative management of patients submitted to total parathyroidectomy consists either in oral administration of vitamin D and cal...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Fronistas O,Stavraka-Kakavaki A,Giougi A,Papatheophanis J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man presented cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath for 2 weeks and fever for 4 days. A contrast chest CT revealed a large right pulmonary artery filling defect, suggestive of pulmonary embolism that failed to respond to anticoagulation therapy. FDG PET/CT was performed to evaluate possible malignan...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Li J,Zhao Q,He L,Zhuang X,Li F

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ga-PSMA PET/CT scan on a 70-year-old man with recently diagnosed prostate cancer revealed a spiculating nodule in the apex of the left lung with intense Ga-PSMA uptake. The nodule had no pathological F-FDG uptake and turned out to be a primary adenocarcinoma of the lung. Cases with complementary pattern of uptake in F...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jochumsen MR,Gormsen LC,Nielsen GL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was compared with radionuclide scintigraphy (RNS) in 16 patients with renal transplants undergoing renal failure to determine which modality could best discriminate between rejection, acute tubular necrosis (ATN), and cyclosporin nephrotoxicity (CN). Although all rejecting transplants ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Goldsmith MS,Tanasescu DE,Waxman AD,Crues JV 3rd

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:A 19-year-old woman presented with a primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma invading the superior vena cava with associated thrombosis of the left brachiocephalic and subclavian vein. She underwent thrombolysis followed by chemotherapy. The midtreatment 18F-FDG PET/CT demonstrated important regression of the prim...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Huot Daneault A,Le Blanc R,Voyer N,Turcotte É,Rousseau E

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old man with gastrointestinal symptoms and weight loss underwent FDG PET/CT, which revealed multiple hypermetabolic hepatic lesions concerning for metastatic liver disease. The outcome of liver biopsy was consistent with the diagnosis of peliosis hepatis which is a rare benign disease characterized by multip...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Levin D,Hod N,Anconina R,Ezroh Kazap D,Shaco-Levy R,Lantsberg S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of unilobar or bilobar pathology is disproportionately high in patients with duplication of the gallbladder. The results of ultrasound and Tc-99m DISIDA studies in one case of gallbladder duplication are presented. An awareness of gallbladder anomalies may improve the accuracy of hepatobiliary imaging by...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： McDonald KL,Lwin T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred patients with suspected acute abdominal inflammation were imaged at 0.5, 2-3, 4-6, and 24 hours after the administration of Tc-99m HMPAO labeled autologous leukocytes. Scan findings were retrospectively compared with final diagnosis, serum C-reactive protein (CRP), and antibiotic treatment. Clinical findin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Laitinen R,Tähtinen J,Lantto T,Vorne M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaders of private practice groups face many challenges. Establishing proper governance, having a good mission statement and business plan, having good participation by the members in administrative practice activities, and establishing proper channels of communication are some important steps. Once that is done, effi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iatrogenic chyle leak with chyloma formation is a rare complication of kidney transplantation resulting from injury to the lymphatics. We present a case of a 53-year-old man who complained of right leg swelling 2 months after kidney transplantation for chronic renal failure. Abdomen CT showed loculated fluid collectio...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Oh JK,Yoon HE,Chung YA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-year-old female patient with a mediastinal neuroendocrine carcinoma complicated by superior vena cava syndrome was referred for a bone metastatic workup. Bone scan with SPECT/CT showed several vertebral fixations without alterations on the unenhanced CT, but a CT scan with injection of contrast media showed verte...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Rager O,Nkoulou R,Garibotto V,Boudabbous S,Arditi D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a woman with a history of Gaucher disease and secondary portal hypertension. She went to hospital for treatment of resistant fever without apparent cause. A conventional study of fever of unknown origin did not show any pathology. For this reason, she was referred to our department for a PET/CT, which did n...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Fuertes J,Garcia-Bennett JR,Iftimie S,Danús M,Abreu JA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old woman with metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma who had been on nivolumab immunotherapy for 10 months was referred for a FDG PET scan to monitor disease progress. New bilateral mediastinal and hilar FDG-avid lymphadenopathy was noted. Pathology on subsequent mediastinal nodal biopsy showed well-formed e...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang M,Schembri G

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old patient with prostate adenocarcinoma was explored by 18F-fluorocholine (FCH) PET/CT for pretreatment staging because of a high risk of prostate cancer. Images showed multiple foci with increased uptake of 18F-FCH within some pelvic and retroperitoneal lymph nodes, osseous foci (iliac bones and sacrum), a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Pinaquy JB,Allard JB,Cornelis F,Pasticier G,De Clermont H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatobiliary imaging in a patient with an amebic abscess showed an early cold defect that later showed rim enhancement. A Tc-99m SC scan did not show prominent flow (making hepatoma unlikely) and showed the previously noted defect to appear larger and without rim enhancement. The differential damage to Kupffer cells ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Allard JC,Lee VW,Foster J

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:Scintigraphic and radiographic correlation of a non-sestamibi-avid lung mass invading the left ventricle serendipitously discovered during adenosine myocardial perfusion imaging is presented. The only clue to the presence of the mass was deformation of the anterior wall on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging. This case...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Achong DM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m isonitrile uptake in a metastatic brain tumor is demonstrated using planar and SPECT imaging. Comparison with Tc-99m DTPA shows a different distribution pattern and uptake intensity, suggesting a different mechanism for both tracers. It is possible that Tc-99m CPI could reflect metabolic activity of the tumor c...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mut F,Bianco A,Nuñez M,De Palma G,Touya E

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00