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：:A 16 year-old boy presented with a firm mass within the left thigh. Ga-6 7 citrate and bone scintigraphy revealed soft tissue radiotracer accumulation within the mass lesion. Radiographs and xerography of the left thigh revealed calcification within the soft tissue mass typical of myositis ossificans. The patient's cl...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Moreno AJ,Yedinak MA,Spicer MJ,Turnbull GL,Byrd BF,Brown TJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal accumulation of Tc-99m MDP in two metastatic lesions of the liver was observed in a patient with resected colon carcinoma. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) revealed characteristic marginal accumulation of Tc-99m MDP in both of those metastatic lesions. X-ray CT showed the corresponding margi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Senda M,Tamaki N,Torizuka K,Fujiwara Y,Kudo M,Tochio H,Ito H,Yamaguchi H,Saiki Y,Ikekubo K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver imaging was performed in two patients with traumatic right hemidiaphragmatic hernia. It has elucidated the cause of obliteration of the right hemidiaphragmatic shadow on the chest x-ray. These cases are illustrative of the usefulness of liver imaging in the diagnosis of traumatic right hemidiaphragmatic hernia a...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Suzuki Y

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of isolated right ventricular infarction (RVI) is described. The lack of clinical and electrocardiographic findings characteristic of isolated RVI makes this pathology a diagnostic challenge. The role of the radionuclide scintigraphic procedures as a single possible tool for the diagnosis of isolated RVI i...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Garty I,Antonelli D,Barzilay J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m sulfur colloid has been shown to be accurate in the detection of intrapulmonary bleeding (1,2). The present example demonstrates the usefulness of Tc-99m sulfur colloid in identifying an unusual manifestation of intrathoracic hemorrhage. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sanchez FW,Reinig JW,Bailey GT,Gobien RP,Vujic I

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case reported demonstrates an unusual appearance of a Meckel's diverticulum on preoperative Tc-99m pertechnetate abdominal scintiscan. Precise pathologic correlation with histopathologic findings in the resected specimen elucidated the unusual findings on the scintiscan. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Patel BR,D'Cruz CA,McCay MB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 104 chest radionuclide angiography (CRNA) studies establishes the utility of this procedure in the evaluation of pulmonary malignancies and benign masses. Remarkable abnormalities in the perfusion of the lungs were identified in 36 (58%) of 62 cases that were not predictably normal or predi...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hartshorne MF,Bauman JM,Telepak RJ,Karl RD,Cawthon MA,Howard WH 3rd,Bunker SR

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：:Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (CTGA) may constitute a pitfall for interpretation of radionuclide angiocardiography, since the two anatomic discordances cancel each other from a physiologic point of view. However, the unusual shape of the ventricles (due to ventricular discordance) and the ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Brendel AJ,Wynchank S,Choussat A,Barat JL,Ducassou D

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：:Forty-one patients (25 male, 16 female) were studied by RNCA in our institution. There were 42 rest studies and 24 stress studies (66 studies total). Sixteen patients were normal, 15 had ASHD, seven had a cardiomyopathy, and three had left-sided valvular regurgitation. Each study was preprocessed using both the standa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Robeson W,Alcan KE,Graham MC,Palestro C,Oliver FH,Benua RS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using serial perfusion lung scans, we have documented the opening up and closure of right-to-left intrapulmonary arteriovenous shunts over a period of several weeks in a patient with chronic alcoholic liver disease. The presence of the shunts correlates well with the severity of hypoxemia and the presence of nodular m...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chen NS,Barnett CA,Farrer PA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of using heparin as a pharmacologic intervention to induce a positive scintiscan was studied in a patient with chronic occult gastrointestinal bleeding. When all standard diagnostic tests (upper and lower gastrointestinal series, upper and lower endoscopy, and conventional noninterventional Tc-99m RBC imagin...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chaudhuri TK,Brantly M

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:False-positive liver scans may occur due to intrinsic hepatic anatomy, extrinsic impression on the liver from adjacent structures, or external attenuation of gamma rays. However, reports of false-positive scans due to external attenuation by pulmonary nodules are very few, and postoperative changes in liver scintigrap...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Ueno K,Kabuto H,Rikimaru S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective examination of the bone scans of 425 pediatric oncology patients was undertaken to determine the incidence of photon-deficient (cold) lesions in this population. Eight patients (1.8%) had cold lesions due to a wide variety of tumors. Of the tumor types, six had not been previously reported to give cold...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Weingrad T,Heyman S,Alavi A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide scintigraphy is a safe and accurate means of detecting postoperative urologic complications in renal transplant recipients. Early identification of urinary leakage coupled with aggressive intervention significantly reduces the associated morbidity and mortality. Perivesical extravasate may be difficult to...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Bushnell DL,Wilson DG,Lieberman LM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium-67 distribution in normal patients is well known; it is also known that the concentration in some tissues may vary according to an individual physiologic stimulus. In this report, the case of a young woman is presented who was studied 15 days after a cesarean section and showed physiologic and pathologic Ga-67...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： López OL,Maisano ER

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：:Lower neck uptake in bone scan is hard to interpret because of superposition of several structures. Single photon emission computerized tomography can be beneficial, as illustrated in this patient with a laryngeal tumor. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Mortelmans LA,DeRoo MJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a bone scan finding of bilaterally and symmetrically increased uptake at the lateral orbital rims in a patient with disseminated Hodgkin's disease. Computerized axial tomography (CT) demonstrated lacrimal gland enlargement, presumably due to infiltration by Hodgkin's disease. Both the radionuclide bone scan ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kramer EL,Sanger JJ,Benjamin DD,Tiu S

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone, brain, and gallium scintigrams are presented of a 48-year-old man with biopsy-proven cerebral amyloidosis. Brain scintigraphy revealed a well-circumscribed accumulation of Tc-99m pertechnetate in the amyloidoma. Bone scintigraphy using Tc-99m methylenediphosphonate likewise exhibited increased activity in the sa...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Moreno AJ,Brown JM,Brown TJ,Graham GD,Yedinak MA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of unilateral renal vein thrombosis was established in a 50-year-old woman. A functional evaluation, by means of Tc-99m DTPA, was performed almost immediately, and at intervals up to nearly eight months later. Functional return of the involved kidney could be documented by plotting the ratio of affected ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Chapman CN,Sziklas JJ,Spencer RP,Rosenberg RJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with an asymptomatic mass in the lower right thorax was evaluated with sonography, intravenous urography, and radionuclide renography. High renal ectopia was only diagnosed with radionuclide renography. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Williams AG Jr,Christie JH,Mettler FA Jr

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective review of two years' experience with radionuclide screening to detect lower gastrointestinal bleeding sites was conducted at New York's Montefiore Medical Center. Of 82 studies performed in 63 patients, 13 identified active bleeding sites. Only three of eight angiograms obtained in these 13 patients we...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Winn M,Weissmann HS,Sprayregen S,Freeman LM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of unilateral septic sacro-iliitis are reported. Importance of the anterior view of sacroiliac joints on the radionuclide bone scan is stressed. Limitation of the posterior view in evaluation of sacroiliac joints may lead to misdiagnosis and false negative results in unilateral sacro-illiac disease. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kumar R,Balachandran S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal radionuclide accumulation of Tc-99m sulfur colloid (SC) and tc-99m macroaggregated albumin (MAA) in the liver has been reported in both inferior and superior vena caval obstruction. We studied a patient with uniform radionuclide accumulation of Tc-99m MAA in the liver during lung scintigraphy. In this patient, b...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Desai AG,Park CH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herniation pit of the femoral neck is a common radiographic lesion whose pathogenesis has been described by Pitt et al and reported as negative on bone scanning. This case report demonstrates increased uptake of Tc-99m MDP in a herniation pit of the femoral neck. ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Thomason CB,Silverman ED,Walter RD,Olshaker R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-99m labeled red blood cell (RBC) preparations are gaining wide acceptance in the diagnosis and localization of gastrointestinal bleeding. A major requirement of the radiopharmaceutical is that the percentage of Tc-99m attached to red cells in the injected dose must be extremely high, since free pertechnetate is sec...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Benedetto AR,Nusynowitz ML

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased participation in sports by the general public has led to an increase in sports-induced injuries, including stress fractures, shin splints, arthritis, and a host of musculotendinous maladies. Bone scintigraphy with Tc-99m MDP has been used with increasing frequency in detecting stress fractures, but this stud...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Brill DR

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case is described in which in spite of clinical, scintigraphic and histologic findings strongly supportive of a diagnosis of "hyperacute rejection," recovery of renal function occurred. These findings are in contrast to the current literature in which it is generally accepted that a renal allograft showing ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Sacks GA,Sandler MP,Partain CL

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic pseudarthrosis was studied with Tc-99m MDP and Ga-67 citrate in 11 patients. Two of the 11 pseudarthroses were complicated by infection. A high concentration of both radiopharmaceuticals was obtained at all 11 sites and their distribution patterns were identical. It was therefore impossible to distinguish...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hadjipavlou A,Lisbona R,Rosenthall L

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of basal ganglia infarction demonstrated by radionuclide brain imaging are presented. Bilateral basal ganglia infarctions in two patients were probably related to methanol intoxication and meningoencephalitis, and unilateral basal ganglia infarctions in two other patients were presumably due to cerebral ath...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Kim EE,Schacht RA,Domstad PA,DeLand FH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early Tc-99m diphosphonate (DP) imaging was performed in 122 patients with cold thyroid nodules in an effort to differentiate benign nodules from malignant. Immediately upon completion of the routine 24-hour I-123 uptake and multiview pinhole imaging, Tc-99m DP was injected intravenously and three serial 3-minute ante...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Siddiqui AR,Wellman HN,Park HM,Burney BT

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two case reports of malignant pleural effusion from breast carcinoma, with scans showing a striking accumulation of Tc-99m MDP, are presented. The Tc-99m MDP was in the pleural fluid and not in the pleura as demonstrated by shift with gravity. Possible mechanisms of malignant effusion accumulation of Tc-99m MDP are su...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Lamki L,Cohen P,Driedger A

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：:Determination of left ventricular function with tomographic radionuclide angiocardiography using a seven-pinhole collimator was evaluated by comparing results of invasive contrast studies and planar multigated blood pool imaging to the tomographic study of 25 patients. LAO, seven-pinhole multigated blood pool acquisit...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Myers RW,Bails RP,Reed VR,Price JM,Drasin E,Hill JD,Saphir JR

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regression in metastatic lesions as seen on a bone scan may be accompanied by increasing sclerosis radiographically. There are two possible causes for interval radiographic sclerosis: progressive osteoblastic tumor deposition or the healing process itself. The presence of active neoplasia can better be determined in s...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Hellman RS,Wilson MA

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative spleen/liver activity ratio was determined from posterior projection images using a photodensitometric method. Ratios from scans of 22 patients with proven pancreatic carcinoma (12 from rectilinear scans and 10 from scintillation camera images) were determined and compared to studies from patients documented ...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Tatum JL,Burke TS,Fratkin MJ,Sharpe AR Jr,Goodrich JK

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An additional case of wandering spleen is reported. A brief review of the etiology of this entity, as well as various findings obtained with nuclear imaging of the spleen, is presented. The authors discuss the relevance of repeated spleen scans to the clinical decision making process. Particular significance is paid t...

journal_title：Clinical nuclear medicine

authors： Barnett SM,Poole JR,Briggs RC

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00