The CT scanners on the market offer a multitude of procedure protocols that enable many clinical questions to be answered quickly. CT scanners can be used to image all parts of the body, some common uses in our hospital include; acute inflammatory bowel diseases; acute appendicitis, trauma including head, spine and skeletal trauma, renal diseases including congenital, inflammatory and neoplasti...

Neurolymphomatosis (NLY) is a type of rare disease with poor prognosis, characterized by infiltration of nerves, nerve roots and plexus. We report a case of 54-years old female patient non-diabetic and normotensive diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia presented with pain in the neck and arm and numbness in the ipsilateral hand. The patient underwent 18F fluorodeoxyglucose PET/...

The diagnosis of multiple primary malignancy (MPM) is not uncommon. Nevertheless synchronous MPM involving urinary bladder and hypopharynx is an extremely unusual event.No such cases have been reported so far in English literature to our review. We report the case of 62-year-old male patient who presented with haematuria and later dysphagia to solids. Whole body 18F-fluro deoxy glucose positron...

We present the case of a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV-B, IPI 3, in complete remission after 6 cycles of rituximab-CHOP. Fivemonths after completing treatment the patient went to the Emergency Department for a picture of headache and diplopy of one month of evolution. During admission she present lumbosciatalgia refractory to pharmacologic ...

PET-CT misalignment has been reported as a source of artefacts in cardiac PET/CT due to a biased photon attenuation correction. Using the data from 28 cardiac PET/CT rest/stress examinations, PETCT misalignment was corrected using three different methods: manual registration, automatic mutual information based image registration and an emission-driven correction algorithm. The clinical effects ...

A 57-year-old man presented with erythema and pain in the scrotum for 1 week, pus exuding from ruptured day. Physical examination showed an enlarged left scrotum, a small area of skin, yellowish-white discharge rupture was visible lower posterior part testes near perineum, slightly high local skin temperature, tenderness, fluctuating sensation. The initial reproductive system ultrasound pelvic ...

Introduction: Spinal tuberculosis is a serious health care problem and diagnosis is often difficult because many diseases may have similar imaging findings. Hence the need to describe findings of spinal tuberculosis with 2-[fluorine 18]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) when compared to CT. Materials and Methods: Sixteen consecutive patients who underwent 18F-FDG ...