Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD), first described by Jakob Erdheim and William Chester in 1930, is a rare form of non-Langerhan's cell histiocytosis with unknown aetiology, is charaterized by systemic xanthogranulomatous infiltrative disease. To date, about 350 cases of ECD have been described in the medical literature. The typical ECD diagnostic triad is bone pain, diabetes insipidus and bilater...

introduction: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of prednisolone on the sensitivity of bone scanning to detect the simulated closed fracture in the rat tibia.  methods: a total number of forty eight adult, male nmri rats randomly assigned into two parts, one part for 4 and other for 8 weeks experiments. each part has been divided into four groups, one group not receivi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the metabolic activity of metastatic foci from breast and prostate cancer patients as scanned by fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) and by technetium-99m methyl diphosphonate (99mTc-MDP) bone scan (BS). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Forty one patients were studied, divided into 2 groups based o...

introduction: the radioimmunoscintigraphy (ris) has found widespread clinical applications in  tumor  diagnosis.  human  epithelial  mucin,  muc1,  is  commonly  over  expressed  in  adenocarcinoma including 80% of breast cancers and represents a useful target for ris. the pr81  is  a  new  murine  anti-muc1  monoclonal  antibody  that  was  found  to  react  with  the  membrane  extracts of se...

Diabetic foot infection is a heavily dreaded complication of diabetes, frequently leading to prolonged hospi-talisation, disability and amputation 1-3. It usually occurs in, mostly long-standing, foot ulcers and is difficult to diagnose and notoriously demanding to treat 1-5. Diagnosis rests on meticulous clinical examination to identify local and/or systemic symptoms of inflammation 1,6,7. How...

conclusion the determination of the presence of mb2 in the maxillary first molars may be carried out using cbct scans. if the ∠mdp was 91 degrees or greater, there was considered to be a higher probability that mb2 canals would be found in the endodontic cavity. due to the positive correlation between the ∠mdp and the ∠mdmb2, the localization of mb2 canals may be easily performed in relation to...

UNLABELLED We prospectively evaluated the use of combined (18)F-NaF/(18)F-FDG PET/CT in patients with breast and prostate cancer and compared the results with those for (99m)Tc-MDP bone scintigraphy and whole-body MRI. METHODS Thirty patients (15 women with breast cancer and 15 men with prostate cancer) referred for standard-of-care bone scintigraphy were prospectively enrolled in this study....