PET with 18 F-FDG has been considered of limited value for detection of bladder cancer
because of the urinary excretion of the tracer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the …

Functional neuroimaging studies have pointed to a possible role of cerebral circuits
involving the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, the striatum, and thalamus in the …

Radionuclide imaging (RI) of the osseous and nonosseous structures of the thigh, knee,
and leg provide important diagnostic and prognostic information upon which the orthopedic …

The assessment of the functional status of the salivary glands has been used in the scintigraphic
evaluation of xerostomia. Several quantitative methods derived from standard dynamic …

Methods Patient gender, age at diagnosis, ophthalmopathy, disease duration, thyroid size,
drug used as clinical treatment, thionamide withdrawal period during RIT preparation, FT 4, …

Purpose To investigate the factors influencing the success rate in a fixed, 15 mCi approach
for treatment of Graves’ hyperthyroidism. Material and Methods The thyroid function outcome (…

Purpose Bone scintigraphy (BS) has been used extensively for many years for the diagnosis
of bone metastases despite its low specificity and significant rate of equivocal lesions. F-…

Background Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is one of the most frequently encountered
spinocerebellar ataxias. However, few reports on brain single-photon emission computed …

Children with an uncomplicated femoral fracture, treated with superimposition of fragments
and intentional shortening, usually develop overgrowth of the fractured femur and the …

OBJECTIVE The thyroid suppression test is still used in some centres as an adjunt in the
diagnosls of autonomous functioning thyroid nodules. With the purpose of minimizing the …