Optimal technique for planar bone scanning improves image quality, which in turn improves
diagnostic efficacy. Because planar bone scanning is one of the most frequently performed …

Background: AIDS patients are susceptible to opportunistic gastrointestinal infections
including ascending cholangitis and cholecystitis, especially if CD4 count is< 200. Incidence of …

Examples of Ga-67 and Tl-201 scans in AIDS patients performed at St. Vincent's Hospital and
Medical Center of New York are presented. Use of these methods is the adopted approach …

McDougall listed 42 cases of physiologic and pathologic causes of abnormal distribution of
radioiodine that can be misinterpreted for metastatic cancer in whole-body I-131 scans. The …

Total body blood pool and delayed bone scans are presented as an example of bone
marrow hyperplasia in patient with AIDS with a CD4 count of< 50, who was receiving high …

Scanning of the pelvis and abdomen of a patient with recurrent colorectal carcinoma showed
recurrent disease in the pelvic floor and the base of the urinary bladder and metastatic …

Ewing sarcoma is the second most common pediatric malignant bone tumor. It usually
presents as a hot spot on a 3-phase bone scan as a result of increased vascularity of the tumor …

DISCUSSION Thallium-201-chloride has been widely used for tumor im aging (/). A previous
report suggested that its sensitivity in high-grade malignant lymphoma is lower than in the …

We report a case of a 60-year-old man diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer who had a
relapse seen only in the brain at FDG PET on standard images. Total thyroidectomy was …

Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (Tc-99m DMSA) is often used to evaluate renal cortical
anatomy and differential renal function. The authors describe a DMSA scan that showed …