Thyroid scintigraphy indications based on clinical experience

Fetal Echocardiography Indications: A Single- Center Experience

Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common lethal congenital anomaly. Early diagnosis of CHD by fetal echocardiography based on maternal and fetal indications is important and lifesaving. The aim of study was to assess the referral aspects of pregnant women to pediatric cardiologist. Materials and Methods This was a retrospective cross-sectional study on 250 documents of refer...

Thyroid and parathyroid scintigraphy

Clinical Experience : GRAVES ’ DISEASE AND THYROID STORM

Thyroid Storm (TS) or Thyroid Crisis (TC) usually develops after some specific precipitating event such as infection, sepsis, trauma, cerebrovascular accident, or radioactive iodine therapy, etc. Thyroid Crisis may present as the so called masked or apapthic thyrotoxicosis (Ghobrial et al 2002), in which case signs and symptoms of the patient may be subtle, or not previously diagnosed with thyr...

Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion-indications and clinical experience.

BACKGROUND Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) has emerged as one of the common procedures performed by spine surgeons. Back pain and radiculopathy due to degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, or deformity are the usual indications. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques have proven to be effective in TLIF as they are associated with less blood loss, fewer wound complicat...

Thyroglobulin Gene Mutation with Cold Nodule on Thyroid Scintigraphy

Thyroglobulin gene mutation is a rare cause of congenital hypothyroidism, but thyroglobulin gene mutations are thought to be associated with thyroid cancer development. A 21-year-old Japanese man treated with levothyroxine for congenital hypothyroidism had an enlarged thyroid gland with undetectable serum thyroglobulin despite elevated serum TSH level. The patient was diagnosed with thyroglobul...