A 65-year old man was admitted because of dyspnea on exertion. Chest radiograph showed massive pleural effusion of the right lung. Large volumes of pleural fluid (>500 mL) were obtained by thoracentesis three times, but malignant cells were not detected. We performed fluoro-2-deoxy-Dglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) in order to discriminate non-malignant dise...

Thallium 201 whole body scintigraphy was performed in a 30 year old patient with diffuse osseous metastatic disease secondary to glioblastoma multiforme. Multiple sites of Thallium uptake correlated with the findings on serial bone scans and radiographs. Bone biopsy of a lower lumbar vertebra confirmed that the metastases were of glial origin.

Radioiodine therapy (RAI) has proven effective for the treatment of patients exhibiting differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) with pulmonary metastases. However, the early detection of metastasis remains challenging, and various studies have reported variations in radioiodine treatment efficacy. The present study investigated whether RAI is an effective method for the treatment of DTC with pulmon...

UNLABELLED Our purpose was to compare the performance of (68)Ga-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-N,N',N'',N'''-tetraacetic acid-d-Phe(1),Tyr(3)-octreotate (DOTATATE), a novel selective somatostatin receptor 2 PET ligand, and (18)F-FDG in the detection of pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors using PET/CT, with correlation of uptake and tumor grade on histology. METHODS The imaging findings of the fir...

increased metabolic activity in muscle secondary to excessive muscle activity during the uptake phase and shortly before fdg injection is a known phenomenon. we present fdg pet/ct findings in a young male, known case of carcinoma maxilla his scan showed diffuse increased metabolic activity in multiple skeletal muscle groups. there was history of unaccustomed, strenuous sports activity of skiing...

a discrete mibi avid lung lesion was found in cinematic views of myocardial perfusion imaging (mpi) of a 59 year-old woman. interestingly, the abnormal uptake in the lung was detectable only in the rest phase images and not in the images acquired in the stress phase. mpi was performed for pre-operation cardiac risk assessment before correction surgery for spinal canal stenosis.  she had no past...

We report the occurrence of lung cancer in a six months old lamb of Ouled Djellal breed from Algeria. The main clinical sign was a considerable amount of whitish foamy fluid discharge from the nostrils when the animal head was lowered and the rear end was lifted. The post-mortem examination revealed the presence of enlarged, heavy and edematous lungs with diffuse or foci areas, reddish or white...

The nuclear medicine literature is rich with reports of both normal and abnormal accumulation of bone imaging agents (99m Tc-HDP, MDP or PYP) in extra-skeletal structures. The cases published in this issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology are excellent examples of this phenomenon. Extraskeletal uptake is usually an incidental finding on the bone scan, although the bone scan occasio...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the physiological uptake pattern of (18)F-FDG in the left ventricular myocardium of patients under preparation for tumor FDG-PET. PATIENTS AND METHODS We enrolled 188 patients without cardiac disease. The accumulation patterns were classified as either 'none', 'diffuse', 'focal' or 'focal on diffuse'. When a focal uptake was only observed on t...

Hewitt, C. J., Hull, D., and Keeling, J. W. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 27. Open lung biopsy in children with diffuse lung disease. Open lung biopsy is occasionally the only way to diagnose certain diffuse lung disorders in childhood. The clinical histories of 24 children with diffuse lung disease and the histological appearance of material obtained at open lung biopsy are rep...