Breast 99mTc-MDP uptake in a man mimicking metastatic lesion of the ribs

breast 99mtc-mdp uptake in a man mimicking metastatic lesion of the ribs

a 65 year-old overweight man with a history of prostate cancer was referred to our nuclear medicine department for bone scanning. anterior projection images showed two small foci of increased radiotracer uptake corresponding to the anterior arcs of the right and left sixth ribs, which were interpreted as suspicious for metastatic involvement. eight months later the patient was referred for foll...

Uptake in a Man Mimicking Metastatic Lesion of the Ribs

A 65 year-old overweight man with a history of prostate cancer was referred to our nuclear medicine department for bone scanning. Anterior projection images showed two small foci of increased radiotracer uptake corresponding to the anterior arcs of the right and left sixth ribs, which were interpreted as suspicious for metastatic involvement. Eight months later the patient was referred for foll...

Soft tissue uptake of 99mTc-MDP in a case of myxoid liposarcoma with breast metastasis

Breast metastasis arising from non mammary malignancy is very rare and occurs in malignant melanomas, sarcomas, lung cancers, ovarian tumors, renal and thyroid carcinomas. Few cases of breast metastasis from myxoid liposarcoma have been reported in the worldwide literature. We report herein a case of a 51-year-old woman with 2-year history of a slowly growing, painless mass of the right proxima...

99mTc-MDP and 18F-FDG uptake in calcified metastatic lesions from ovarian papillary serous adenocarcinoma.

Myocardial 99mTc-MDP uptake on the bone scintigraphy in the hemodialysis-associated amyloidosis: A case report [Persian]

Amyloidosis is characterized by an abnormal extracellular deposition of amyloid in different organs, where it usually causes some type of dysfunction. Its cause is unknown. Five different types of amyloidosis have been described according to the underlying disease; immunoglobulin amyloidosis, familial amyloidosis, senile systemic amyloidosis, secondary amyloidosis and hemodialysis-associa...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...