UNLABELLED Diabetic foot infection is the most common etiology of nontraumatic amputation of the lower extremities, and early diagnosis is of great importance in its management. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the strength of (99m)Tc-IgG scintigraphy in diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the diabetic foot and to compare (99m)Tc-IgG scintigraphy with (99m)Tc-methylene diphosphonate ...

Received 3/30/2010; accepted 4/16/2010. For correspondence and reprints contact:Yu-Chien Shiau, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Nuclear Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital. 21 Section 2, Nan-Ya South Road, Panchiao, Taipei 220, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-89667000 ext.1223, Fax: (886) 289668378, E-mail: [email protected] Skeletal tuberculosis (TB) is a very rare disease comprising 1-3% of the total popu...

BACKGROUND POEMS syndrome is a clinical condition with a very heterogeneous clinical manifestation. Its presentation as well as monitoring is complex and dependent on the clinician's experience. One of the leading presenting symptoms is based on evaluation of skeletal damage with typical osteosclerotic or mixed lesions. AIMS AND METHODS Our aim was to compare the usefulness of different imagi...

PURPOSE The computer-assisted diagnostic system for bone scintigraphy (BS) BONENAVI is used to evaluate skeletal metastasis. We investigated its diagnostic performance in prostate cancer patients with and without skeletal metastasis and searched for the problems. METHODS An artificial neural network (ANN) value was calculated in 226 prostate cancer patients (124 with skeletal metastasis and 1...

We compared the ability to diagnose skeletal metastasis between serum prostate specific antigen (PSA), C-terminal propeptide of blood type I procollagen (PICP), and urine type I collagen-crosslinked N telopeptide (NTx) in prostate cancer patients. In sixty-nine patients with prostate cancer, bone scintigraphy was performed, and serum PSA and PICP and urine NTx were measured. The median level of...

Bone metastases are common, especially in more prevalent malignancies such as breast and prostate cancer. They cause significant morbidity draw on health-care resources. Molecular hybrid imaging techniques, including SPECT/CT, PET/CT, whole-body MRI with diffusion-weighted imaging, have improved diagnostic accuracy staging the skeleton compared previous standard methods, allowing earlier tailor...

Objective(s): To review the findings of the patients with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) having technetium-99m-pertechnetate (99mTc-pertechnetate) and gallium-67 citrate (Ga-67) salivary gland scintigraphy in the past eight years.Methods: The patients with SS, who were referred to our department for salivary gland scintigraphy during January 2008-December 2015 were studied using both 99mTc-pertechneta...