Background The clinical benefit of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)
as compared with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) for patients with multivessel …

Purpose The accurate harvesting of a sentinel node in breast cancer includes a sequence of
procedures with components from different medical specialities, including nuclear medicine…

There is a resurgence of interest in lymphoscintigraphy because of attention to the sentinel
node concept and the availability of the surgical gamma probe that can be used in the …

Most reports to date using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with
technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi have used acquisition parameters that were optimized for …

The distribution and severity of osteoarthritis were investigated in 56 knees by history and
physical examination, assessment of knee function, radiography with and without …

Event rates associated with a normal or low-risk myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging study
have been shown by numerous investigators to be associated with <1%/y of follow-up. Thus…

CT and PET are widely used to characterize solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs). However,
most CT accuracy studies have been performed with outdated technology and methods, and …

Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi is a new myocardial perfusion imaging agent that offers
significant advantages over thallium-201 (Tl-201) for myocardial perfusion imaging. The …

Sentinel lymph node biopsy is now the practice of choice for the management of many patients
with breast cancer. This was not true in the early 1990s, when the first such procedures …

It has been validated that sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) shows whether a patient’s
breast cancer or melanoma has spread to regional lymph nodes. As a result, management of …