A 47 year old female with papillary thyroid carcinoma was referred to our department for post-treatment whole body iodine scanning. The acquired images revealed a focal zone of intense radiotracer uptake in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen. SPECT/CT fused slices showed a focal zone of the radioiodine (131I) uptake in the right colon wall. Colonoscopy revealed a pedunculated po...

thallium 201 whole body scintigraphy was performed in a 30 year old patient with diffuse osseous metastatic disease secondary to glioblastoma multiforme. multiple sites of thallium uptake correlated with the findings on serial bone scans and radiographs. bone biopsy of a lower lumbar vertebra confirmed that the metastases were of glial origin.

introduction: involvement of the skeleton can cause an excruciating pain in two-thirds of terminal patients with a history of malignancy. due to several limitations of other therapies, such as analgesics, bisphosphonates, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and external beam radiotherapy; bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals have an important role in palliation of pain from bone metastases. although th...

Thirty-six year old male patient with pathological fracture of the left tibia underwent intramedullary and soft tissue curettage. The histopathological examination revealed diffuse large B cell lymphoma. The patient underwent F18-FDG PET-CT scanning for initial staging. FDG PET-CT scan revealed hypermetabolic lesions at the left tibia and in bilateral kidneys. After the systemic chemotherapy an...

Received 10/2/2000; revised 11/17/2000; accepted 12/2/2000. For correspondence or reprints contact: Ming-Che Wu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, 92, Section 2, Chung-San North Road, Taipei 10449, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-25433535 ext. 3369, Fax: (886)2-25433535 ext. 2925, E-mail: [email protected] Background: The authors evaluated the performance of Tc-MDP planar sk...

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