Detection of lacrimal gland infiltration on routine bone scintigraphy.

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：:Hepatic epithelioid angiomyolipoma (AML) is rare. Although generally epithelioid AML shows benign biological behavior, it can occasionally have malignant potential. In this study, we report a case of 2 hepatic epithelioid AMLs with different F-FDG uptake; one is intensely FDG avid, and the other is non-FDG avid. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Li B,Hou J,Yu H,Shi H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a right skull base paraganglioma detected using F-choline PET/CT in a 63-year-old man. The F-choline PET/CT scan was performed to assess a known prostate cancer. In addition, the scan demonstrated a mildly choline-avid (SUVmax, 3.8) tumor within the carotid sheath of the right skull base, extendin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harbourne AD,Bradley KM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old man presented with cough and pain in his upper chest for 1 week. Chest CT showed an ill-defined right paratracheal mass with slight enhancement in the upper mediastinum. A FDG PET/CT was performed showing focal increased FDG uptake with SUVmax of 4.7 in the mass. The mass was excised surgically. Histopat...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhang J,Ni Y,Dong A

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Twenty of 22 patients with tuberculous hepatitis had abnormal Tc-99m tin colloid liver scans. However, in the majority of the patients the changes were mild and nonspecific. The most frequent scintigraphic picture was a decreased uptake of the radiocolloid by the liver, with shunting to the spleen and bone marrow. The...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Essop AR,Posen JA,Savitch I,Levin J,Kew MC

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：:The uptake of Tc-99m tetrofosmin (TF) is reported in a case of parathyroid adenoma. A 65-year-old woman was studied on different days with TF, Tc-99m sestamibi (MIBI) and Tl-201 chloride (Tl). TF and MIBI injections were preceded by oral administration of potassium perchlorate. Clear identification of the adenoma was ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mansi L,Rambaldi PF,Marino G,Pecori B,Del Vecchio E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was to evaluate the relationship among FDG uptake in the pituitary gland (FDGp), FDG uptake in the thyroid gland (FDGt), and serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in patients with diffuse FDGt incidentally noted on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). PATIENTS AND METH...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Jeong YH,Kim D,Lee JW,Rhee Y,Nam KH,Yun M,Kim CK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 41-year-old man from South Asia presented with a several months' history of unilateral nasal obstruction and bleeding. At nasal endoscopy, two strawberry-like, friable, polypoid masses in the upper airways were detected. The patient's clinical trait was compatible with an infectious disease. F-FDG PET/MRI was perfor...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cazzador D,Cecchin D,Colangeli R,Crimì F,Emanuelli E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic cavernous hemangiomas rarely grow. Although a few cases have been reported in the literature, none used Tc-99m red blood cell scintigraphy. The authors describe such a case here. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gorenberg M,Sopov W,Groshar D

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intraparenchymal lung tumor exhibiting the histopathologic and immunophenotypic characteristics of an intracranial meningioma is described. The tumor presented as a solitary asymptomatic pulmonary nodule with increased fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on positron emission tomography. After right upper lobectomy, benign ps...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cura M,Smoak W,Dala R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 49-year-old woman with biopsy-proven multisystemic Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) with hypothalamic involvement documented on F-FDG PET/CT. Chemotherapy with a combination of vinblastine, prednisolone, methotrexate, and 6-mercaptopurine was carried out. Two months later, a 90% reduction of t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kruljac I,Balenović A,Gaćina P,Imashuku S,Vrkljan M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and merit of testicular imaging, utilizing Tc-99m pertechnetate, were studied prospectively in a group of patients who presented with acute onset of scrotal pain. Consecutive admissions were studied. All were managed according to the likelihood of the problem being testicular torsion, which was determined...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dunn EK,Macchia RJ,Chauhan PS,Laungani GB,Solomon NA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most physicians interviewing for a job are seeking a clinical position. There are many different types of interviews for such employment, and this article enumerates the types of interviews and some characteristics of each. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study for evaluation of the use of a monoclonal antibody directed against melanoma in the staging of patients affected by malignant melanoma, we report monoclonal antibody uptake in a follicular thyroid adenoma. Computed tomography, ultrasonography, and pertechnetate scintigraphy did not provide a cer...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Feggi L,Prandini N,Pansini G,Virgili T,Indelli M,Virgili AR

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The study aimed to investigate the value of clinical variables and rest gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in predicting cardiac deaths in medically treated dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients. METHODS:This is a retrospective study. Fifty-six consecutive hospitalized DCM patients who un...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wang L,Yang MF,Cai M,Zhao SH,He ZX,Wang YT

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REPORT:Extrahepatic bile duct (EHD) cancer varies in uptake of FDG. The aim of the present study was to determine the role of glucose transporter (GLUT) 1 and hexokinase (HK) 2 in the glucose metabolism of EHD cancer cells using immunohistochemistry and 18F-FDG PET/CT. METHODS:Twenty-six patients with E...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yoon SO,Jeon TJ,Park JS,Ryu YH,Lee JH,Yoo JS,Kim JK,Yoon DS,Oh EJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a Tc-99m DTPA study, activity simultaneously appeared in the kidneys and in a right lateral band. This was due to an inflammatory tract and not to urinary drainage. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Slavin JD Jr,Skarzynski JJ,Spencer RP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-year man underwent live related renal transplantation for end-stage renal disease. He was referred for a baseline renal scan on day 4. The urine output was satisfactory and the serum creatinine showed a decreasing trend. Renal dynamic scintigraphy with technetium-99m ethylenedicysteine demonstrated radiotracer ac...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tripathi M,Chandrashekar N,Kumar R,Malhotra A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 58-year-old man was referred for selective internal radiation therapy for locally advanced unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. Intra-arterial particle perfusion scintigraphy was performed with SPECT/CT following intra-arterial injection of Tc macroaggregated albumin. Angiography demonstrated a hepatic falciform a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Patel D,Le K,Chaganti J,Mansberg R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old woman underwent F-FDG PET/CT after developing a fever of unknown origin. PET/CT revealed intensive FDG uptake at the nasal and lung lesions. On the laboratory data, serum myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) titer was elevated, although serum directed against proteinase 3 (PR3) AN...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ito K,Minamimoto R,Yamashita H,Morooka M,Okasaki M,Mimori A,Kubota K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old-man with persistent anemia was referred for a Tc-99m-labeled red blood cell (RBC) scan to detect any source of gastrointestinal bleeding. RBC scintigraphy revealed a hypervascular mass in the left renal fossa with functional loss in that kidney, suggesting the possibility of a renal cell carcinoma (RCC)....

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Cortes J,Alonso JI,Ruiz-Oliva F,Alvarez S,Ormijana JS,Caton B,Alcorta P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with ascites are known to have complications such as pleural effusions and hernias. Special diagnostic procedures are occasionally necessary to determine the nature of the abnormality and to determine the corrective medico-surgical approach. The two cases described illustrate the usefulness of intraperitoneal...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Recoskie MJ,Picard D,Picard M,Carrier L,Chartrand R

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:Radiopharmaceutical extravasation is a known nuclear medicine adverse effect, mostly with no complication in case of diagnostic radiopharmaceutical. However, a therapeutic radiopharmaceutical extravasation may have clinical consequences and must be treated quickly and effectively. We report here a case of 177L...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Maucherat B,Varmenot N,Fleury V,Senellart H,Rousseau C

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Conventional nuclear medicine equipment lacks sufficient spatial resolution to reliably visualize the papillary muscles (PM). Positron emission tomography (PET), however, can adequately visualize these structures using various positron emitters. METHODS AND PATIENTS:We present various patterns of PM observed o...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Steinmetz AP,Maisey MN,Hardoff R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fibrosing alveolitis is a prominent feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc), and accounts for much of the morbidity and mortality of this disease. Sensitive techniques for the detection and monitoring of fibrosing alveolitis could target patients for early therapeutic intervention. The objective of this small pil...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Richard M,Cox D,Earle L,Varga J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old man diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma of the left nasal ala was referred for preoperative scintigraphic sentinel lymph node mapping. In three separate foci around the lesion, 0.2 mCi of Tc-sulfur colloid was intradermally administered. Planar images demonstrated accumulation of tracer midway between t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bermo MS,Leung A,Behnia F

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old man had a diagnosis of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas of the dura in the left tentorium. The patient underwent whole-body F-FDG PET/CT and C-methionine PET/CT in order to complete the staging of dural mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. C-methionine uptake was detected in multiple me...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Annunziata S,Cuccaro A,Caldarella C,Hohaus S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the contribution of Tc-99m pyrophosphate scintigraphy (TPS) on the overall management of patients suspected of having acute myocardial infarction (AMI), hospital records of 58 consecutive patients who underwent TPS, were evaluated in depth. The results indicate that TPS was essential for the diagnosis of A...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Desai AG,Berger BC,Shin YW,Park CH,Madsen MT

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00