Sports nuclear medicine. Bone imaging for lower extremity pain in athletes.

abstract：:The speed of Tc-99m DTPA/HMPAO radioaerosol clearance from the lungs that is represented as a slope from lungs to blood was measured in 23 male normal controls using commercial lung radioaerosol delivery units in the supine position in order to avoid the influences of gravity. The right lung was selected and three reg...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kao CH,Lin HT,Yu SL,Wang SJ,Yeh SH

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：PURPOSE:PET is a useful tool for detecting the presence and extent of brain tau accumulation. However, most first-generation tau PET tracers are limited for high off-target binding and detection of tau in non-Alzheimer disease (AD). This study evaluated potential clinical applications of F-PI-2620 as a novel PET tracer...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Oh M,Oh SJ,Lee SJ,Oh JS,Roh JH,Chung SJ,Lee JH,Lee CS,Kim JS

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Three-phase bone scintigraphy is sometimes of great value in the detection of uncharacteristic metastases and assists the management of patients in terms of primary focus detection. While evaluating the skeletal system with whole-body bone scintigraphy, other system pathologies may also be detected incidentally. In th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Çayir D,Bozkurt M,Gültekin SS,Karaçalioğlu AÖ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old man presented with a left nasal cavity mass, biopsy of which revealed extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma. A PET-CT scan showed increased F-18 FDG uptake in the nasal mass, anterior mediastinal lymph nodes, and multiple subcutaneous nodular deposits in the chest wall, gluteal region, and right femoral areas. T...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Berk V,Yildiz R,Akdemir UO,Akyurek N,Karabacak NI,Coskun U,Benekli M

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Cerebral vascular lesions are integral to the diagnosis of vascular parkinsonism (VP). The VP, also referred to as lower body parkinsonism, is frequently caused by subcortical white matter lesions, but lesions at any levels of the nigro-striato-thalamo-cortical pathway can also cause VP, thus giving rise to various sy...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kim C,Kim DY,Hong IK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal appearance of a gastrointestinal bleeding study using labeled red blood cells has been discussed frequently, but the actual appearance is not well known. In this atlas article, the authors report on unusual findings in non-bleeding subjects and have tabulated the visualization of various structures. Vascula...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Boyd CM,Williamson MR

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:An intrasplenic pancreatic pseudocyst may mimic a subcapsular splenic hematoma. Misdiagnosis of this entity may have serious consequences. Particular care should be taken when a patient presents with a cystic mass in the region of the spleen and a history of chronic alcohol abuse, regardless of the presence or absence...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wallner RJ,Basara BE,Dadparvar S,Croll MN,Brady LW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) findings of a patient with a testicular Leydig cell tumor. A 43-year-old man was referred for whole body FDG PET/CT imaging for health care screening. FDG PET/CT imaging demonstrated the presence of a focal hypermet...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lee G,Lee JH,Lee WA

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Venous malformations of the parotid glands are uncommon and can be difficult to confirm on routine anatomical imaging alone because of overlap of imaging features with other more common parotid lesions. (99m)Tc RBC scans combined with SPECT/CT offer a noninvasive way to diagnose parotid venous malformations without th...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Patel R,Saad H,Srinivasan A,Brown RK

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 14 patients with ophthalmoplegia plus Tc-99m hexamethylpropylene amineoxime (HMPAO) brain SPECT imaging was performed. Three patients showed bilateral parieto-occipital hypoperfusions, and two patients had left parietal defects (one with an additional right temporal lesion). Two patients presented with occipital hy...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Grünwald F,Zierz S,Broich K,Dewes W,Böker T,Biersack HJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary artery involvement can occur in about half of the patients suffering Takayasu arteritis. Increased FDG activity in the aorta and its main branches in patients with Takayasu arteritis on PET/CT had been well-reported. However, the FDG PET/CT appearance of pulmonary artery involvement in Takayasu arteritis is ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y,Tong G,Wen Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) bone scans of the lumbar spine were evaluated in the management of patients with low back pain and suspected spondylolysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty-three patients (mean age, 30 years) with high clinical suspicion of pars interarticularis defects were incl...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dutton JA,Hughes SP,Peters AM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reoperative surgery in the neck for recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is associated with increased morbidity compared with primary surgery. Radioguided occult lesion localization was recently proposed in patients with DTC recurrences. Here we report on the combination of radioguided occult lesion localizat...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Giovanella L,Suriano S,Lunghi L,Bongiovanni M,Ceriani L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium imaging may play an important role in both initial evaluation and in follow-up in patients with metastatic melanoma. We present a case where the patient had gallium-avid metastatic melanoma. SPECT proved helpful in the initial evaluation. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Edeburn GF,Tow DE

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the renal excretion quantitatively, the authors analyzed the Tc-99m DTPA renogram using mean transit time (MTT) with deconvolution analysis and compared it to the perfusion index. One hundred thirteen studies consisting of 25 normal, 11 obstruction, 35 transplant-norm, 12 transplant-obstruction, a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kubota K,Atkins HL,Anaise D,Oster ZH,Pollack W

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To define the appropriate scan time for fluorine-18-labeled dihydroxyphenylalanine (F-18 DOPA) PET in oncological imaging of pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS:F-18 DOPA PET examinations were performed in 9 patients with 7 pheochromocytomas and 4 head and neck paragangliomas using a de...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hentschel M,Rottenburger C,Boedeker CC,Neumann HP,Brink I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present plain x-ray examination, bone scintigraphy, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging of 2 patients diagnosed with prostate cancer who complained of hip pain. Bone scintigraphy was suggestive for metastases. Further radiologic investigation revealed benign etiologies for the hip pain; calcific ten...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kerimoglu U,Kaya D,Ergen FB

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：PURPOSE:This study was aimed to determine whether Tc-99m-hexakis-2-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) scintigraphy performed in the middle of preoperative chemotherapy has a prognostic value in patients with malignant bone and soft tissue tumors (MBST). MATERIALS AND METHODS:In 90 patients with MBST, Tc-99m-MIBI scintig...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wakabayashi H,Taki J,Inaki A,Sumiya H,Zen Y,Tsuchiya H,Kinuya S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal visualization during dynamic renal imaging is an uncommon finding that has previously been related to underlying neoplastic disease. The authors report a case of active Paget's disease of the left ilium resulting in uptake of Tc-99m DTPA in the arterial flow and early blood pool images. This report emphasizes...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Larcos G,Gruenewald SM,Farlow DC,Antico VF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma is a rare malignant tumor arising within the melanocytes of the skin. The authors report a case of primary and metastatic malignant melanoma revealed with Tc-99m MIBI in one patient. Tc-99m MIBI images showed uptake in possible malignant melanoma skin lesions of the left calf and great toe of a 73-y...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jang Kim S,Won Seok J,Ju Kim I,Ki Kim Y

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：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：: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：:The usefulness of F-18 2'-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) has been well established for lymphoma staging. Although involvement of the pancreas occurs in more than one third of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, primary lymphoma of the pancreas accounts for less than 1% of extranodal ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yoon SN,Lee MH,Yoon JK

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00