Objective. To compare the use of radiolabelled human monoclonal anti-TNF-a scintigraphy with clinical examination and MRI of hands and wrists joints in patients with active RA. Methods. Eight patients with active RA, 28-joint DAS (DAS-28)53.2 and a healthy volunteer underwent whole body and hand/wrist scintigraphy after the administration of anti-human TNF-a labelled with technetium-99m (Tc). O...

objective(s): the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance and utility of 99mtc hynic-toc planar scintigraphy and spect/ct in the diagnosis, staging and management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (gpnets). methods: 22 patients (median age, 46 years) with histologically proven gastroentero-pancreatic nets underwent 99mtc hynic-toc whole body scintigraphy and region...

AIM To present a rare case of lingual thyroid detected using a hybrid of single photon emission computed tomography and standard computed tomography in a young woman with hypothyroidism. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 29-year-old woman was screened for autoimmune thyroid disorders in early pregnancy, and found to have subclinical hypothyroidism. No thyroid tissue was found in the anterior neck upon ...

Skeletal metastases are a most common event in prostate cancer patients with advanced cancer disease. Early detection of bone metastases is crucial to initiate successful therapy. Now a days imaging technique such as bone scintigraphy is a frequently used method for detection of bone metastases. Without radiological tools it is difficult to diagnose, treat or follow clinically, bone metastases ...

A case of myotonic muscular dystrophy in which thallium-20l showed dystrophic change of skeletal muscle is described. After i.v. injection of2 mCi of thallium-20l, the patient's whole body scintigram was reconstructed by taking the geometric mean of the corresponding anterior and posterior pixel counts over the 512 x 512 matrix formal. The scintigram showed manifest hypoperfusion at the site of...

It is well established that Technetiummethylene diphosphonate (Tc MDP) whole body bone scintigraphy (WBBS) can demonstrate multiple lesions with increased radiotracer concentration in involved bone. But it is hard to differentiate multiple benign osteolytic lesions from disseminated bone metastases. Even combined with medical history and multiple imaging results, clinical diagnosis of metastati...

  Objective(s): The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance and utility of 99mTc HYNIC-TOC planar scintigraphy and SPECT/CT in the diagnosis, staging and management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GPNETs). Methods: 22 patients (median age, 46 years) with histologically proven gastroentero-pancreatic NETs underwent 99mTc HYNIC-TOC whole body scintigraphy and regi...

BACKGROUND Well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents is a rare disease with favorable prognosis despite regional and distant metastasis at presentation in many patients. Treatment recommendations are varied and there is little consensus on follow-up guidelines for these patients. METHODS Medical records of patients less than 22 years of age treated at our institution w...