Important but Not-often Used Nuclear Medicine Procedures.

Not significant but important.

Armstrong and colleagues report the result of a large Phase IIb randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of a preparation of the Bowman Birk Inhibitor compared with an oral placebo in reversing the extent of oral leukoplakia as measured visually by pathology or a battery of intermediate end points. In this editorial, we review the report of this negative clinical trials result to highlight...

Rotational atherectomy: you will never regret using it but you often regret not having used it!

Lay health worker attrition: important but often ignored.

Lay health workers are key to achieving universal health-care coverage, therefore measuring worker attrition and identifying its determinants should be an integral part of any lay health worker programme. Both published and unpublished research on lay health workers has largely focused on the types of interventions they can deliver effectively. This is an imperative since the main objective of ...

Procedures of choice in renal nuclear medicine.

The uronephrologic applications of nuclear medicine have reached a stage of maturity where procedures of choice for many specific clinical problems can be identified. This review attempts to achieve this aim as objectively as possible. It must be emphasized that the opinions expressed here are those of the author and in many areas there may be a lack of consensus.

Staff and patient absorbed doses due to diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures

Background: Annual patient effective dose equivalent can be considered as a quantitative physical parameter describing the activities performed in each nuclear medicine department. Annual staff dose equivalent could be also considered as a parameter describing the amount of radiation risk for performing the activities. We calculated the staff to patient dose equivalent ratio to be used as a phy...