Treatment response in Paget's disease.

Pagets Disease Of The Nipple

Pagets disease of uncertain origin: case report

BACKGROUND Pagets disease of the nipple presents as an eczematous lesion, occurs in 1 - 4% of all female breast carcinoma cases and is invariably associated with underlying malignancy either overt or occult. The majority of these cases are invasive disease although 40-45% are associated with DCIS. CASE PRESENTATION A 39 year old lady presented to our unit with a palpable lump in the right bre...

99mTc-MIBI scan in mammary Pagets disease: a case report.

Technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (99mTc-MIBI) uptake is known to be increased in breast cancer because of increased blood flow from angiogenesis and heightened metabolism. We performed a 99mTc-MIBI scan in a patient with mammary Paget's disease. The patient had underlying invasive cancer in the same side of the breast. 99mTc-MIBI scan exhibited a scintigraphic image of the uptake from t...

Retrospective study of clinical course and treatment response in Graves’ disease [Persian]

In this report, the clinical course and treatment response of 210 patients with Grawes’ disease referred to the research institute for nuclear medicine were studied. The disease was more common in 3rd and 4th decades and more frequent in women (F/M=4). Treatment response with antithyroid drugs was about 50%, whereas 80% of the patients treated by I-131 showed positive response. There was ...

Treatment response in Paget's disease.