POLSKIE ARCHIWUM MEDYCYNY WEWNĘTRZNEJ 2016; 126 (3) MM is characterized by malignant proliferation of clonal plasma cells and excessive formation of monoclonal immunoglobulin.1 99mTc-MIBI is a radiotracer commonly used in myocardial perfusion imaging (FIGURE 1C). In literature, there have been reports on the use of 99mTc-MIBI in the diagnosis of MM since 1996.2 In a multicenter study conducted ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine whether 99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) scanning could improve diagnostic accuracy of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and help clinical decision making for an accurate management. MATERIAL AND METHODS 99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy was performed in 62 cases of PTB 34 cases had active pulmonary tuberculosis (APTB) and were at the beginning of antituberculo...

OBJECTIVE In this study, our aim was to study the efficiency of gamma probe guided minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (GP-MIP), conducted without the intra-operative quick parathyroid hormone (QPTH) measurement in the cases of solitary parathyroid adenomas (SPA) detected with USG and dual phase 99mTc-MIBI parathyroid scintigraphy (PS) in the preoperative period. MATERIAL AND METHODS This cl...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to evaluate the myocardium function in acute paracetamol poisoning using 19mTc-MIBI GSPECT. MATERIAL AND METHODS Under examination there were 25 acutely paracetamol poisoned patients (age: 24.5 +/- 6 years) treated at the Ward of Toxicology and Environmental Diseases. The control group necessary to perform quantitative analysis of myocardial scintigraphy co...

This work aims to analyze the influence of aminophylline in the pulmonary and hepatic uptake of 99mTc-methoxyisobutil isonitrile (99mTc-MIBI). 72 patients were studied and a myocardial perfusion (MPS) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with 99mTc-MIBI was carried out after the administration of dipyridamole. According to the MPS, the patients were classified into 2 groups: Group...

The concomitant appearance of a sublingual thyroid and primary hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid mediastinal adenoma is not common. This co-occurrence can lead to a misdiagnosis by morphological imaging methods alone. This case emphasizes the role of 99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy in the detection of parathyroid ectopic adenoma in a patient with an ectopic thyroid gland. This more accurate locati...

We evaluated the usefulness of 99mTc-methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile (MIBI) dual phase scintigraphy for detecting hyperfunctioning parathyroid adenoma. We retrospectively reviewed 18 hyperparathyroid patients who received MIBI prior to neck exploration and compared the radiological findings of MIBI with ultrasonography (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Fifteen patients were studied with MR...

Objectives: Multidrug resistance (MDR), which may be due to the over expression of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) and/or MRP, is a major problem in neoadjuvant chemotherapy of osteosarcoma. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of Tc-99m MIBI scan for predicting the response to pre-operative chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: Twenty-five patients (12 males and 13 females, aged between 8 and...