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- FIGURE 1.
Duodenal accumulation (arrows) in a patient with colorectal cancer, not definable on planar images: planar scan (A), SPECT/CT coronal view (B), and CT coronal view (C).
- FIGURE 2.
Appropriate use of 99mTc-MAA SPECT/CT in treatment planning for SIRT. *In some centers patients receive prophylactic cholecystectomy (29).
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- TABLE 1.
Seventy-Six Patients with Different Types of Cancer Evaluated for Radioembolization Therapy
Type of cancer Number of patients Colorectal cancer 20 Neuroendocrine tumors 16 Hepatocellular carcinoma 15 Cholangiocellular carcinoma 9 Breast cancer 5 Pancreatic carcinoma 3 Gastric cancer 2 Lung cancer 1 Ovarian cancer 1 Leiomyosarcoma 1 Ocular melanoma 1 Malignant melanoma 1 Cancer of unknown origin 1 - TABLE 2.
Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), and Negative Predictive Value (NPV) of 99mTc-MAA Planar, SPECT, and SPECT/CT Studies in Retrospective Analysis and RLC
Study Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%) Planar 32 (18–51) 98 92 71 SPECT 41 (25–59) 98 93 73 SPECT/CT 100 (87–100); 82% in RLC 93 89; 88 in RLC 100; 90 in RLC Data in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals.
- TABLE 3.
Number of Cases in Which Planar Imaging, SPECT, or SPECT/CT Was Successful in Determining Exact Anatomic Location of Extrahepatic Perfusion Abnormalities
Study Gallbladder Stomach* Duodenum Intestine (other than duodenum) Spleen Abdominal wall Coil region Diaphragm Planar 0 1 0 7 0 1 0 0 SPECT 1 1 0 7 0 2 0 0 SPECT/CT 9 11 11 9 2 3 6 1 ↵* Four cases were due to free 99mTc in stomach, all in concordance with thyroid gland uptake.
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