We present a 55-year old male patient who was subjected to whole body skeletal scintigraphy for metastatic work up of urinary bladder cancer. Whole body 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) skeletal scintigraphy was performed. That revealed no skeletal metastasis in the entire body skeleton and normally visualized left kidney with empty right renal fossa. Additionally tracer activity ...

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine • September December 2009 291 To the Editor: The Hell J Nucl Med has printed an article comparing technetium-99m pentavalentdimercapto succinic acid (99mTc(V)-DMSA) as an effective agent diagnosing acute bone and joint infection [1]. We now report that 99mTc(V)-DMSA can identify foci of infection in a case of fever of unknown origin. 99mTc(V)-DMSA, as a tumo...

Received 2/5/2003; revised 6/13/2003; accepted 6/17/2003. For correspondence or reprints contact: Bi-Fang Lee, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, 138 Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 704, Taiwan. Tel: (886)6-2766109, Fax: (886)6-2766609, E-mail: [email protected] Introduction: It is often difficult, especially in children, to accurately diagnose acute pyelo...

 ABSTRACT COVID-19 mainly affects respiratory and immune systems, but other organs like renal, cardiovascular, lung and nervous systems could also be involved in both acute and chronic settings (1, 2). There is a lot of studies that demonstrate an increasing number of long COVID-19 who continue to experience persistent symptoms weeks or even months after the initial disease. Reports suggest...