Pediatric thyroid cancer

DA Chaukar, V Rangarajan, N Nair… - Journal of surgical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Objective The treatment of pediatric thyroid cancer evokes considerable
controversy. The extent of surgery and role of postoperative radioactive iodine are not clearly …

[PDF][PDF] Relative efficacy of 32P and 89Sr in palliation in skeletal metastases

N Nair - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1999 - Soc Nuclear Med
Relative Efficacy of 32Pand 89Srin Palliation in Skeletal Metastases Page 1 major problem
facing the physician is the treatment of intractable bone pain of advanced malignancy. Two …

Potential role of FDG PET imaging in predicting metastatic potential and assessment of therapeutic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in Ewing sarcoma family of …

…, MGR Rajan, RV Asopa, B Arora, N Nair… - Clinical nuclear …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to retrospectively correlate FDG uptake in
primary Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) with tumor behavior, and to evaluate whether …

Response of osteosarcoma to chemotherapy: evaluation with F-18 FDG-PET scans

N Nair, A Ali, AA Green, G Lamonica, H Alibazoglu… - Clinical Positron …, 2000 - Elsevier
Objective: Positron emission tomography (PET) using fluorine-18-fluoro-2-D-deoxyglucose (FDG)
is increasingly being used to evaluate and manage oncology patients. Several reports …

Micronuclei frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes of thyroid cancer patients after radioiodine therapy and its relationship with metastasis

…, YS Raut, P Kand, RW Hawaldar, N Nair - … /Genetic Toxicology and …, 2009 - Elsevier
In most cancers peripheral blood lymphocytes exhibit DNA damage. In the case of thyroid
cancer the micronucleus (MN) assay has been used to assess DNA damage before and after …

Unusually elevated liver radioactivity on F-18 FDG PET in Hodgkin's disease: hepatic 'superscan'

S Basu, N Nair - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Increased focal concentration of FDG in the background of relatively lower normal hepatocyte
uptake is usually regarded as the hallmark of metastatic involvement of the liver from a …

Early response assessment in gastrointestinal stromal tumors with FDG PET scan 24 hours after a single dose of imatinib

A Shinto, N Nair, A Dutt, NS Baghel - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), rare mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract,
are gaining the interest of researchers because of the impressive metabolic response to …

“Cold” vertebrae on F-18 FDG PET: causes and characteristics

S Basu, N Nair - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Background: Photon deficiency in the vertebrae on FDG PET can arise as a result of varying
etiologies, and a proper interpretation of this incidental observation is essential for an …

Unsuspected metastatic male breast nodule from synovial sarcoma detected by FDG PET

N Nair, S Basu - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2005 - journals.lww.com
The literature of serendipitous findings on whole-body FDG PET continues to grow. Whole-body
FDG PET imaging of a 24-year-old man with treated synovial sarcoma of the right upper …

Unilateral proptosis with thyrotoxicosis resulting from solitary retroorbital soft tissue metastasis from follicular carcinoma thyroid

S Basu, N Nair, N Aravind - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Unilateral proptosis can be of neoplastic origin, even if the results of thyroid function tests
suggest hyperthyroid disease, and it needs proper investigation with a computed tomographic …