The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Unexpected focal colonic or rectal radiotracer activity is an usual finding in patients subjected to a PET study. The aim of this work has been to evaluate the clinical significance of this finding in the prediction of an existing colorectal malignancy.During the last three years, all patients studied with 18 F-FDG PET/CT and PET for oncologic work-up purposes were prospectively surveyed for...
To evaluate the discrepancies between the professionals and outpatients on quality perceived of a Nuclear Medicine Department (NMD).This cross-sectional study has been carried out using two questionnaires: a validated patient experience questionnaire and a quality perception questionnaire for professionals. Both questionnaires use the same 25 categorical items to measure service quality, 2 Likert...
In this paper we report on a successful management of multiple bone metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer.In 2007, a 75-year-old female patient, previously referred for thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter, underwent surgical removal of a lumbar mass with histological findings of metastasis from well differentiated thyroid cancer. After surgery, serum thyroglobulin (sTg) was 204.4ng/mL. A...
The routes of lymphatic drainage from a breast cancer are the axilla (the most frequent) and the extra axillary regions. Among the latter, there are the so-called intrammamary lymph nodes (IMLN). This study has aimed to assess the incidence of IMLNs in our patients and study the evolution of these cases with IMLN in the lymphoscintigraphy.Thirty-eight patients (out of 1725) with IMLN in the pre-operative...
Initial experience is presented by using freehand SPECT in the intraoperative radiolocalization of a parathyroid adenoma in 2 patients, one of which was mediastinal. There is only one previous publication including 3 patients with parathyroid adenomas in usual parathyroid localizations. We also report for the first time a comparative assessment of results with portable gammacamera during the same...
A 63-year-old male patient with a history of stent implantation in the left anterior descending artery three months before is presented. Due to the onset of vegetative symptoms, he was referred for gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion. During acquisition of the resting images he presented chest pain and ST segment elevation, so that urgent coronary angiography was performed, showing stent thrombosis....
To describe and validate a novel, fully automated program specifically designed for the semiquantification of striatal 123 I-FP-CIT uptake using volumes of interest (VOI) analysis.The proposed algorithm is based on a template that mimics the striatal 123 I-FP-CIT uptake in a healthy subjects, derived from defined anatomical VOIs available from WFU PickAtlas. Four SPECT studies of the...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.