Biliary Leak in the Postsurgical Abdomen: A Primer to HIDA Scan Interpretation.

abstract：:Adrenal scintigraphy is a unique nuclear medicine procedure that provides noninvasive, functional information concerning the status of the adrenal cortex. The uptake of iodocholesterol, in addition to localizing adrenal cortical abnormalities, can be manipulate to focus on adrenal cortical dysfunction in either the al...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Gross MD,Valk TW,Swanson DP,Thrall JH,Grekin RJ,Beirewaltes WH

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antineuroblastoma monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) have been described and two have been used in radioimmunoimaging and radioimmunotherapy in patients. MoAb 3F8 is a murine IgG3 antibody specific for the ganglioside GD2. Radioiodine-labeled 3F8 has been shown to specifically target human neuroblastoma in patients...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Miraldi F

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radionuclide procedure, hysterosalpingo-radionuclide scintigraphy (HERS), was designed to evaluate the migration of a particulate radioactive tracer from the vagina to the peritoneal cavity and ovaries as well as to image and functionally outline the patency of the pathways between these two extremes of the female r...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Iturralde M,Venter PF

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear medicine imaging techniques continue to play a unique role in the evaluation of hepatic masses. Although many useful radiodiagnostic agents are available, the predominant nuclear medicine study used to evaluate hepatic masses in this decade is technetium-labeled red blood cell "blood-pool" scintigraphy. Hepati...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Middleton ML

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer remains an important and growing health problem. Advances in imaging of prostate cancer may help to achieve earlier and more accurate diagnosis and treatment. We review the various strategies using reporter genes for molecular imaging of prostate cancer. These approaches are emerging as valuable tools ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Singh A,Massoud TF,Deroose C,Gambhir SS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft infection following prosthetic vascular reconstruction is an uncommon but severe complication. The clinical presentation is often subtle and nonspecific and may occur long after surgery. Although defining a prosthetic vascular graft infection can be difficult, early diagnosis and treatment are essential for the ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Keidar Z,Nitecki S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear medicine renal imaging provides important functional data to assist in the diagnosis and management of patients with a variety of renal disorders. Physiologically stable metal chelates like ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and diethylenetriamine penta-acetate (DTPA) are excreted by glomerular filtration ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Hofman MS,Hicks RJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past several decades, PET has emerged as critical to accurate staging and restaging of lymphomas. Nonetheless, a number of critical issues regarding its optimal use remain. Whereas risk-adapted strategies appear to improve the outcome of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, results are less convincing in non-Hodgk...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cheson BD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is the most common serious brain disorder in children, occurring in all parts of the world and within every stratum of the population. Through its effects, it exerts a significant physical, psychological, economic, and social toll on children and their caregivers. Historically, the surgical treatment of epile...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Tamber MS,Mountz JM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear imaging in the definition of the components of the congenitally enlarged extremity is important in the design of a successful therapeutic regimen. In our series of 32 patients evaluated for primary lymphedema, 85% were determined to have abnormalities that were not purely lymphatic in origin. The multiscintigr...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Mandell GA,Alexander MA,Harcke HT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Board of Nuclear Medicine gave its first certifying examination in 1972 to 1,096 candidates. It was established with the support of the Society of Nuclear Medicine amid considerable conflict involving the American Board of Radiology, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Patho...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Ross JF

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 25% of the diabetic population is at risk for developing a pedal ulcer. These ulcers serve as a portal of entry for osteomyelitis and overlie more than 90% of diabetic pedal osteomyelitis cases. The diagnosis of osteomyelitis often is overlooked, and imaging studies are an essential part of the evaluation. The m...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Palestro CJ,Love C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is directed at the clinically useful highlights of ultrasound and radionuclide testing in adults with coronary and valvular heart disease, intracardiac shunts, and hypertrophic and congestive cardiomyopathies. As a clinical toto, the radionuclide procedures are currently more useful than ultrasound examina...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Horowitz SF,Goldsmith SJ,Meller J,Patterson RE,Teichholz LE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to SEER Cancer Statistics Review there are around 165,000 new prostate cancer cases estimated in 2018 accounting for 9.5% of all newly diagnosed cancers. Accurate staging of primary prostate cancer is important for therapy selection (local vs systemic). Recent developments in molecular imaging may significan...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Pomykala KL,Farolfi A,Hadaschik B,Fendler WP,Herrmann K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammographic screening of women age 40 and older can reduce breast cancer deaths by at least 30% to 40%. However, not all cancers are detected by mammography. Although a new supplementary modality for screening could, in theory, fill in this detection gap, such utilization must be based on rigorous demonstration of it...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Feig SA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the lung is one of the most frequent malignancies and a major cause of mortality. The use of positron emission tomography (PET) has been extensively investigated in patients with carcinoma of the lung and has established clinical utility and cost-effectiveness in characterization of solitary pulmonary nod...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Shon IH,O'doherty MJ,Maisey MN

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of patients with renovascular hypertension (RVH) among the larger group of patients with essential hypertension has been aided by a wide variety of in vitro and in vivo nuclear medicine procedures. The most valuable in vitro procedure remains the radioimmunoassay (RIA) for renin activity obtained from i...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Fine EJ,Sarkar S

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive review of the effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation, BEIR VII-Phase 2: Health Risks From Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation, was published in 2006. The BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) reports are a series of publications by the National Academy of Sciences. T...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Royal HD

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital blue dyes were used to show the feasibility and accuracy of intraoperative lymphatic mapping of the sentinel node (SN) in patients with melanoma, breast cancer, and other solid tumors. Surgeons who have successfully completed an adequate number of cases of intraoperative mapping and sentinel lymph node dissectio...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Bostick PJ,Giuliano AE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of automated blood chemistry screens for serum calcium levels along with improved methods in measuring parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels have made the diagnosis of parathyroid disease a common clinical problem. Parathyroid adenomas account for the majority of primary hyperparathyroidism with diffuse ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Winzelberg GG,Hydovitz JD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of discovering and developing a new pharmaceutical is a long, difficult, and risky process that requires numerous resources. Molecular imaging techniques such as PET have recently become a useful tool for making decisions along a drug candidate's development timeline. PET is a translational, noninvasive im...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Donnelly DJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:99mTc-PYP myocardial scintigrams represent a means to detect and localize acute myocardial necrosis. These scintigrams are expected to be abnormal with acute myocardial infarcts of at least 3 grams in weight if serial imaging is utilized and proper attention to technique is provided. Any etiology of myocardial necrosi...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Willerson JT,Parkey RW,Bonte FJ,Lewis SE,Corbett J,Buja LM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our all-digital, filmless, department of nuclear medicine, which has been fully operational for 3 years. The approach to the design and implementation of a nuclear medicine picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is discussed, as well as enhancements found to be necessary or desirable during our ...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Cohen AM,Parker JA,Donohoe K,Jansons D,Kolodny GM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consolidating personal computers (PCs) with nuclear medicine technology can create high computational power comparable with that produced by vendor-specific computer equipment, and at more affordable prices. The integration of a standard platform and operating system with a large installed base has enabled our departm...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Tello R,Potter JE,Hill TC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the present time, there are three radiolabeled antibodies that have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imaging of cancer, a fourth commercially sponsored product recommended for approval (as of 10/29/96, cap romab pendetide (ProstaScint; Cytogen Corp., Princeton, NJ) was upgraded from re...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Zuckier LS,DeNardo GL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) of local cerebral glucose utilization is highly sensitive in detecting epileptogenic regions that correspond to electrographic localization in patients with epilepsy. In medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy for which surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone is a therapeuti...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Chugani HT

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 20 years there have been great advances in our understanding of the molecular genetics of gastrointestinal tumors. In general, cancers develop and proliferate due to: driver mutations or related alterations in the genome resulting in overactivity of oncogenes, underactivity of tumor suppressor genes allowi...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Wahl RL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer processing can improve the quality of scintigrams in several ways. It can increase the accuracy with which the image approximates the activity distribution by reversing degradation. It can selectively enhance normal or abnormal structures of interest. It can optimize the use of the display system presenting t...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Pizer SM,Todd-Pokropek AE

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the components of the thrombotic and fibrinolytic systems have at some time been evaluated as a means of carrying a radiolabel specifically to thrombi, although very few have been promising enough to emerge from investigational status to routine clinical use. New approaches are being explored, including improv...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Knight LC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of localization of gallium in the lungs in a large variety of inflammatory pulmonary diseases, the chest radiograph is and will continue to be the principal diagnostic tool for evaluation of pulmonary inflammatory disease. The 67Ga-citrate scan, however, serves as a study complementary to chest radiography be...

journal_title：Seminars in nuclear medicine

authors： Bekerman C,Hoffer PB,Bitran JD,Gupta RG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00