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Scintigraphic assessment of bone status at one year following hip resurfacing : comparison of two surgical approaches using SPECT-CT scan [PDF]

, 2012
Objectives: To study the vascularity and bone metabolism of the femoral head/neck following hip resurfacing arthroplasty, and to use these results to compare the posterior and the trochanteric-flip approaches.
Amarasekera HW, Amarasekera HW, Beaulé PE, Beaulé PE, Bolland BJ, Calder SJ, Carrothers AD, Cheng D, Collier BD, Crock HV, Fordyce MJ, Forrest N, Freeman MA, Ganz R, Gholamrezanejhad A, Horger M, Jiang Y, Khan A, Koch GG, Linke R, Mariani G, McMahon SJ, Patterson AH, Prime MS, Ryu JS, Scharf S, Shimmin AJ, Steffen RT, Steffen RT, Thickman D, van der Bruggen W, Whiteside LA   +31 more
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Prediction of painful temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis in juvenile patients using bone scintigraphy

Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2019
The study aims to evaluate whether bone scintigraphy is effective in diagnosing temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis (OA) in juvenile patients.
Yeon‐Hee Lee, Il Ki Hong, Yang‐Hyun Chun   +2 more
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Total Parathyroidectomy with Subcutaneous Parathyroid Forearm Autotransplantation in the Treatment of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism: A Single-Center Experience. [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction Secondary hyperparathyroidism is common in chronic kidney disease. Parathyroidectomy is indicated in refractory hyperparathyroidism when medical treatments and so the parathyroid hormone levels cannot be lowered to acceptable values without
Casella, Claudio, Dimko, Mira, Galani, Alessandro, Lai, Silvia, Ministrini, Silvia, Nazario Portolani, And, Totaro, Luigi   +6 more
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SPECT-CT for characterization of extraosseous uptake of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate on bone scintigraphy

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2013
Bone scintigraphy is a sensitive and popular method for imaging a wide array of benign or malignant skeletal abnormalities. However, the uptake of tracers used for bone scintigraphy may be observed in various extraosseous sites, thereby limiting its ...
Ramya Soundararajan, Niraj Naswa, Punit Sharma, Sellam Karunanithi, Aftab Hasan Nazar, Kalpa Jyoti Das, Chandrasekhar Bal, Arun Malhotra, Rakesh Kumar   +8 more
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Apical Sparing Pattern of Longitudinal Strain and Positive Bone Scintigraphy in Metastatic Myocardial Calcification

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
An apical sparing pattern of longitudinal strain and positive radionuclide bone scintigraphy are believed to be specific for the diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis.
Kathleen W. Zhang, MD, Justin S. Sadhu, MD, MPHS, Brent W. Miller, MD, Daniel C. Brennan, MD, Andrew J. Bierhals, MD, MPH, Jie-Fu Chen, MD, Chieh-Yu Lin, MD, PhD, Justin M. Vader, MD, MPHS   +7 more
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Sternal nonunion on bone scintigraphy: A case report [PDF]

, 2013
Sternal non-union is a severe complication of sternotomy closure following open heart surgeries. Healing problems typically occur in 0.3% to 5% of patients. Technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate (99mTc-MDP) bone scintigraphy has been used to assess bone
Assadi, M., Javadi, H., Moharrabi, M., Pourbehi, G., Shafiee, E.   +4 more
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Condylar Hyperplasia: An Updated Review of the Literature [PDF]

, 2015
Condylar hyperplasia (CH) is a rare disorder characterized by excessive bone growth that almost always presents unilaterally, resulting in facial asymmetry. Classification of the different types of CH can differ depending on the authors.
Almeida, Luis Eduardo, Pierce, Sean, Zacharias, Joseph   +2 more
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99mTechnetium‐pyrophosphate scintigraphy: a practical guide for early diagnosis of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy

ESC Heart Failure, 2022
Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR‐CM) is caused by the cardiac deposition of insoluble amyloid fibrils formed by misfolded transthyretin proteins and is associated with various cardiac symptoms, such as progressive heart failure, conduction ...
Nobuhiro Tahara, Olivier Lairez, Jin Endo, Atsushi Okada, Mitsuharu Ueda, Tomonori Ishii, Yoshinobu Kitano, Hahn‐Ey Lee, Eleonora Russo, Toru Kubo   +9 more
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Malignancy incidence and primary tumor investigation in the patients with vertebral compression fractures by means of combined Tc-99m methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Journal of Radiation and Cancer Research, 2022
Purpose: Vertebral compression fractures frequently present with back pain and are determined by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. However, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is performed to determine the ...
Zehra Pınar Koç, Pelin Özcan Kara, Ahmet Dağtekin, Gülhan Örekici   +3 more
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Scintigraphy with 99mTc(V)-DMSA in monitoring patients with inflammatory bowel disease [PDF]

, 2013
The clinical significance of pentavalent technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mTc(V)-DMSA) scintigraphy in diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has not yet been fully elucidated. The aim of this prospective paper was to study the above.
Abedi, J., Amiriani, T., Assadi, M., Besharat, S., Javadi, H., Mirkarimi, H.S., Semnani, S., Seyedabadi, M.   +7 more
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