INTRODUCTION The normal values for red cell volume have been widely accepted as 26 to 33 ml/kg in males and 22 to 29 ml/ ^9 in females (Dacie and Lewis 1966) and Mollison (1967) quotes figures of about 30 ml/kg in males and 23.4 to 27 ml/kg in females, referring to five papers reporting investigations with radioactive iron (55Fe and 59Fe) or radioactive phosphorous (32P). Using radioactive chro...

UNLABELLED This study was undertaken to assess the feasibility of lymphoscintigraphy of the gastric cardia and to identify the incidence of paraesophageal lymphatic drainage, precluding total gastrectomy with esophagojejunostomy as a potentially curative therapy for gastric cardia cancer. METHODS Ten patients scheduled for esophagectomy with high-grade dysplasia or with esophageal cancer at l...

BACKGROUND Sorafenib can be considered as the effective option of treatment in patients with metastatic radioiodine refractory differentiated thyroid cancers. The cutaneous manifestations of Sorafenib include rash, desquamation, hand foot skin reactions, pruritus, alopecia and erythema. We report the first case of hypopigmentation related to sorafenib therapy. CASE PRESENTATION We report the ...

Radioactive cesium (Cs) is a significant concern due to its role as major byproduct of nuclear fission and potential for radioactive contamination. Internal contamination with Cs is...

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...

The use of radioactive phosphorus in the treatment of disease stems from the initial studies made by Lawrence and his colleagues in 1936 (1). Since then there have been a number of reports which establish the efficacy of this form of therapy in chronic leukemia and polycythemia (2-11). These clinical reports have been issued from a number of separate institutions, indicating that independent ex...

The authors compare the radioactive method of detecting foot and mouth disease virus sequence products with a non-radioactive, silver stain sequencing method. The latter was found to compare favourably to the radioactive technique for detecting such products. The silver stain sequencing method was simple and did not require expensive specialised equipment. This new approach will be particularly...