Tc-99m-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) whole body scintigraphy is the method of choice for detection of metastatic bone diseases. It is primarily used to help diagnose various bone-related conditions such as primary or metastatic cancer of the bone, location of bone inflammation, and fractures that may not be visible on traditional X-ray images, as well as detection of bone damage due to infectio...

We present the case of a 72-year-old male who underwent thyroidectomy for encapsulated follicular carcinoma (3.5 cm×3 cm) in the left thyroid lobe andwas referred to the Department of Nuclear Medicine for ablationof thyroid remnants.Onadministrationof 131I (3700MBq) theTSHvaluewas63.8 IU/ml, thyroglobulin0.4ng/ml and antithyroglobulin antibodies 25.70U/ml. In the whole body scan (WBS) performed...

Department of Radiation Oncology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Division of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiu...

Herniation of urinary bladder is rare [1] and when present, it commonly involves either inguinal or femoral canal accounting for almost 1-3 % of all inguinal hernias [2]. Very often such hernias are asymptomatic and turns out to be an incidental finding in an imaging carried out for some other clinical indications [3]. Inguinal hernias may be direct or indirect. Indirect inguinal hernia protrud...

A number of people suffered rhabdomyolysis caused by eating crayfish in China and the final diagnosis was a rare disease called Haff disease. In this study, we present a 26 years old man with a history of severe muscular soreness for whole body after eating crayfish and this status lasted for about 3 months. Blood analysis showed significant increase in serum creatine kinase and lactate dehydro...

BACKGROUND/AIM Bone scintigraphy is well-known method for the detection of neoplastic lesions with a high sensitivity and, at the same time, a lower specificity. On the other hand magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is previously established noninvasive imaging method regar ding its diagnostic specificity. The aim of this study was to determine the possibilities and to correlate two different diag...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid (99mTc-DPD) scintigraphy for differentiation of monoclonal immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) and transthyretin (TTR)-related cardiac amyloidosis. BACKGROUND Differential diagnosis between TTR-related and AL amyloidosis is often complex and time-consuming. METHODS Patients under routine obs...

objective(s): we investigated a frequency of lower extremity uptake on the radioactive iodine (rai) whole body scan (wbs) after rai treatment in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, in order to retrospectively examine whether or not the frequency was pathological. methods: this retrospective study included 170 patients with thyroid cancer, undergoing rai treatment. overall, 99r (58%) an...

We investigated the diagnostic capabilities of I-131, Tl-201, and Tc-99m-MIBI (hexakis-2-methoxyisobutyl-isonitrile) scintigraphy for thyroid cancer metastases after total thyroidectomy over the entire body and for every locus before and after thyroid bed ablation. After total thyroidectomy of thyroid cancer, 36 cases were subjected to I-131 treatment 64 times. They consisted of 17 men and 19 w...

We investigated the diagnostic capabilities of I-131, Tl-201, and Tc-99m-MIBI (hexakis-2-methoxyisobutyl- isonitrile) scintigraphy for thyroid cancer metastases after total thyroidectomy over the entire body and for every locus before and after thyroid bed ablation. After total thyroidectomy of thyroid cancer, 36 cases were subjected to I-131 treatment 64 times. They consisted of 17 men and 19 ...