OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the usefulness of gallium-67 citrate (67Ga) and technetium-99m tetrofosmin (Tc-TF) scan to detect Hodgkin's disease (HD). METHODS In this study, 24 patients with HD underwent 67Ga and Tc-TF scan before receiving any therapy. RESULTS 67Ga scan could detect HD in all 24 (100%) patients. Tc-TF scan could detect HD in 22/24 (91.6%) patients, bu...

A 74-yr-oldmalecomplainedof painlessswellingin the right parotid area which started several months ago. There was no associated numbness in the area, and he denied facialweakness. Essentially, the masswas asymptomatic. His past medical history wasunremarkable andhehadnopriorsurgery. Hewasnotonany medications. He denied allergies. He had smoked tobacco, two packs a day for 55 yr and quit 6 yr pr...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic re-evaluation is important for all patients with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) for determining the etiology and identifying transient CH cases. Our study is a first thyroxine therapy withdrawal study conducted in Macedonian CH patients for a diagnostic re-evaluation. We aimed to evaluate the etiology of CH, the prevalence of transient CH and identify predictive factors fo...

Adhesive capsulitis (AC) is a disorder that is characterized by shoulder pain and progressive limitation of both active and passive shoulder motion. Although the underlying pathological mechanisms of the disease are not well understood, the inflammatory reactions depending on the stage have been demonstrated histologically. The purpose of the study is to investigate the inflammatory changes tha...

We present a patient with left-sided obstructed megaureter secondary to neuropathic bladder. He was referred for technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid ((99m)Tc-DMSA) renal cortical scintigraphy to evaluate renal cortical function. Images obtained 4 hr after injection showed significant activity in the dilated left ureter. When the ureter is visualized on DMSA scan, obstructive megaureter shoul...

Three hundred and sixteen patients with solitary or dominant thyroid nodules were imaged both with technetium-99m- (99mTc) pertechnetate and iodine-123 (123I). The images were preferred, but differences were small and in 27%-58% of the cases there was no difference in quality between the two radionuclides. Discrepancies between 99mTc and 123I images were found in 5%-8% of cases, twice as often ...

1 Fadime Demir1, Taner Erselcan2, Bülent Turgut3, Zekiye Hasbek3, Perihan Kelkit4, Ayşegül Özdal5, Serdar Savaş Gül6, Pelin Duman7 1Department of Nüclear Medicine, Elazığ Researc and Educational Hospital, Elazığ, 2Nüclear Medicine, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Medicine, Muğla, 3Nüclear Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Sivas, 4Department of Nüclear Medicine, Siv...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The clinical impact of facet joint bone scan activity is not fully understood. The hypothesis of this study is that facet joints targeted for percutaneous treatment in clinical practice differ from those with reported activity on technetium Tc99m methylene diphosphonate SPECT/CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients with a technetium Tc99m methylene diphosphonate SPECT/CT...