Gallium scanning in the 'new' tuberculosis.

abstract：:Both female adnexal tumor of possible wolffian origin (FATWO) and metastasis to the appendix from any primary tumor are extremely rare entities. The appendiceal metastasis from FATWO has not been reported, and there is a lack of the literature regarding FDG PET/CT study in both. We reported the case of an appendiceal ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Liu Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-month-old female child with a history of stage IV favorable biology neuroblastoma with a 123-I MIBG (metaiodobenzylguanidine scan) avid adrenal mass, with retroperitoneal nodal extension and bony metastasis, was in complete remission after intense multimodal therapy. Seventeen months after diagnosis a surveillanc...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Schindler T,Yu C,Rossleigh M,Pereira J,Cohn R

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stomach cancer is one of malignancies that may result in pulmonary tumor embolism. Pulmonary tumor embolism commonly presents with dyspnea and cor pulmonale signs. We report serial observations of pulmonary tumor embolism with 18F-FDG PET/CT. 18F-FDG PET/CT scan showed chronological changes of FDG uptake in both lung ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Shin S,Pak K,Kim SJ,Kim H,Kim SJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to evaluate and compare the role of Tc-GH SPECT/CT and F-FDOPA PET/CT for diagnosing recurrence in patients with glioma. METHODS:Thirty patients with histopathologically proven glioma (glioblastoma multiforme, 14; grade III, 6; grade II, 8; and grade I, 2), who presented with clinical and/or...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Karunanithi S,Bandopadhyaya GP,Sharma P,Kumar A,Singla S,Malhotra A,Gupta DK,Bal C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of an accessory spleen that was identified on nuclear scan at the time of diagnosis of splenic rupture. This information, proven by subsequent angiography, alerted the surgeons to the ease with which functional splenic tissue could be preserved in this patient. A sulfur colloid scan obtained post s...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Moallem AG,Khoury PT

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become a popular alternative to traditional open cholecystectomy for uncomplicated, acute cholecystitis. At some centers, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is already the more frequently performed procedure. The presence or suspicion of common bile duct (CBD) stones or obstruction may neces...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Nagle CE,Murphy J

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m pertechnetate is known for its uptake and excretion by the mammary gland. Generally, lactating women are not advised to have any radioisotopic studies. If it is necessary to have one, it is recommended that they do not breast-feed their children for at least 24 hours. Congenital absence of the mammary gland is ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Halkar RK,Abdel-Dayem H,Jahan S,Sehweil A,Sayed M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium scan detection of various neoplasms is tabulated by anatomic and histologic categories. The experience with many neoplasms is sufficient to accurately predict the likelihood of detection with gallium. This tabulation helps to point out other areas where the cumulative experience is insufficient to accurately p...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Teates CD,Bray ST,Williamson BR

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascites can cause pleural effusions when the peritoneal fluid crosses the diaphragm through a pleuroperitoneal shunt in the setting of hepatic cirrhosis (hepatic hydrothorax) or malignant ascites. Scintigraphic imaging for pleuroperitoneal shunt requires intraperitoneal injection of Tc-SC or Tc-macroaggregated albumin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Covington MF,Choudhary G,Avery RJ,Kuo PH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old girl with cardiorespiratory distress and suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) was referred for urgent lung perfusion scintigraphy, proven negative for perfusion defects but unexpectedly revealing an enlarged orthotopic thyroid. This finding was, under the circumstances, considered as suggestive of thyroid st...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Arsos G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attendees at a meeting have different ways in which they get information and make decisions, different personal needs, and different ways in which they participate in groups. Some have counterproductive behaviors in committee meetings, such as attacking others, talking too long but not saying much, talking too lit...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidental thyroid FDG uptake is not rarely encountered on PET studies. In this case, we present an incidental thyroid focus of F-FDG uptake identified in a patient with splenic marginal zone lymphoma during the baseline and the response assessment PET/CT study that proved to be medullary thyroid carcinoma on subseque...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Paschali A,Moonim M,Hubbard J,Mohan H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the inconsistent supply of (99m)Tc and the increasingly widespread use of PET/CT have led to a renewed interest in PET/CT bone scans using (18)F-NaF. Recently, a 64-year-old man with biopsy-proven lung cancer underwent an (18)F-NaF PET/CT bone scan due to a shortage of (99m)Tc. Unexpectedly, multiple ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Wu J,Zhu H,Ji H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-year-old man was examined because he was a potential "healthy" renal donor. However, the routine work-up before surgery revealed hypertension, although there was no family history of this condition. The patient was examined to exclude secondary causes of hypertension. Tc-99m glucoheptonate renal imaging showed ne...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kumar R,Gupta R,Reddy SN,Malhotra A

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:An 85-year-old man with a 2-year history of prostate cancer, treated with radiotherapy and hormonal therapy, presented increased prostatic-specific antigen levels. F-choline PET/CT showed focal prostatic uptake consistent with known local recurrence, increased uptake of 2 hypodense thyroid nodules and of 2 left cervic...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Vija Racaru L,Gabiache E,Fontaine S,DʼAure D,Mourey L,Courbon F,Zerdoud S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer disease. It is often underdiagnosed because of the overlapping with Alzheimer disease symptoms. We report the F-FDG and F-florbetapir dynamic PET images (early and delay phases) of an 83-year-old woman with cognitive impairment associ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： López-Mora DA,Camacho V,Lleó A,Fernández A,Carrió I

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：:Findings on cholescintigraphy in gallbladder carcinoma are described in five patients. Four patients presenting with acute cholecystitis had nonvisualization of the gallbladder with normal hepatoenteric transit time. One of these had a large portal mass and two had liver metastasis as additional findings. The fifth pa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Colletti PM,Ralls PW,Siegel ME,Halls JM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infective endocarditis can be difficult to prove, even in the face of strong clinical suspicion. A case in which standard methods of diagnosis failed to demonstrate endocarditis in a patient with recurrent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and porcine aortic valve is reported. An In-111 labelled leukocyte SPECT study d...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Purnell GL,Walker CW,Allison JW,Dalrymple GV

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes an I-131 whole-body scan with false-positive uptake at the site of a nose ring in a patient with follicular thyroid cancer. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Dick C,Mudun A,Alazraki NP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indium-111 octreotide scintigraphy is a useful investigation in the diagnosis and staging neuroendocrine or nonendocrine malignancies such as carcinoid, granulomas, small cell lung cancer, medullary thyroid carcinoma, and others. Tumors with large numbers of somatostatin receptors can be accurately imaged and this can...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ha L,Mansberg R,Nguyen D,Bui C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses some of the most recent research and future directions of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. In addition to numerous articles on short-term outcomes from cardiac surgery on adults, there are new initiatives of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database which will all...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Harolds JA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Technetium-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy is a well-established technique for diagnosing congenital hypothyroid disease. However, the biodistribution of pertechnetate (TcO4-) in neonates and young infants is not well documented. The purpose of this study was to analyze and document the biodistribution of TcO4- ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kiratli PO,Gordon I,Nagaraj N

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mineral content of the distal radius was determined in 106 patients by single photon absorptiometry using iodine-125 monochromatic source. The technique provided a reliable means to assess the degree of mineral loss in conditions such as osteoporosis, renal osteodystrophy in patients on chronic maintenance dialys...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Gupta S,Luna E,Belsky J,Gelfman N,Miller K,Davies T

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man, who had diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the neck and just finished 4 cycles of chemotherapy, presented to our department to evaluate the status of the disease. FDG PET/CT revealed a focally increased activity in the right lobe of the liver. However, pathological examination showed hepatocyte hydrop...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Zhao M,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:(177)Lu-labeled ethylenediamine-N,N,N',N'-tetrakis methylene phosphonic acid ((177)Lu-EDTMP), was used to palliate metastatic bone pain as a new bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical. In this phase II study, we assessed the efficacy and safety of (177)Lu-EDTMP for bone pain palliation in patients with breast cancer ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Yuan J,Liu C,Liu X,Wang Y,Kuai D,Zhang G,Zaknun JJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RrDTC) have a rather poor prognosis and are in need of novel treatments. As RrDTCs can in some cases express somatostatin receptors (SSRT), targeting of these receptors by Ga/Lu-DOTATATE could evolve as a novel theranostic option. METHODS...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Roll W,Riemann B,Schäfers M,Stegger L,Vrachimis A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ureteroinguinal hernia was demonstrated on both a Tc-99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (MAG3) renal scan and a computed tomographic scan in an 81-year-old man with suspected urinary tract infection and a prior history of transurethral resection of the prostate. Ureteral hernias are relatively rare, although the ureteroin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Katz DS,Young W,Yung E

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00