... LK: The role of [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positronemissiontomography and [111 In]diethylenetriaminepentaacetate-D-Phe-pentreotide scintigraphy in the localization of ectopic adrenocorticotropin-secreting ... gallium-68-DOTA-D-Phe1-Tyr3-octreotide positronemissiontomography to localize the site of ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 20 11 5:405 Submit your next ... secretion are highlighted by this case When all modalities fail to localize a source of ectopic ACTH, the role ofclinical judgment plays a significant role Ongoing monitoring of the patient, combined...
... papilloedema or retinal haemorrhage Labile or postural hypotension, headache, palpitations, pallor and diaphoresis 10 Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring 11 Home blood pressure monitoring Offer ... and loss of compliance of larger arteries At least one quarter of adults (and more than half of those older than 60) have high blood pressure The clinical management of hypertension is one of ... Professor Bryan Williams Clinical Adviser; Professor of Medicine, University of Leicester School of Medicine and University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust National Collaborating Centre for Chronic...
... spent on work or other activities 4 .25 (4 .23 - 4 .27 ) Social functioning (SF) Role emotional (RE) 5B Accomplished less than you would like 4 .22 (4 .20 - 4 .24 ) 5C Did work or other activities less ... floor effects of the Role Physical and Role Emotional scales All scales exceeded the recommended minimum estimates of internal consistency for group comparisons, but only the Physical Functioning, ... Brazilian version of the SF-36 (v .2) was lower than reported in other studies in view of the lower factor loadings of the Social Functioning and Role Emotional scales used to estimate this component...
... and normocytic anaemia (haemoglobin serum concentration of 10.3 g/dl), and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinaemia (IgG serum level of 21 74 mg/dl)) required a review of the patient’s medical history, ... gingival biopsy showed a focal lymphocytic sialoadenitis (with a focus score of per mm2 of glandular tissue) without mucosal lesion The patient’s ANA titre was positive (at a dilution of 1:80), ... consideration holds for all autoimmune diseases Psychiatric presentation ofprimary SS also suggests that mental disorders not occur only as a response to a psychological distress or a reaction to a...
... et al Table Results of the technical comparison of indirect immunofluorescence (IIF), immunoblot and ELISA for the detection of antipolymyositis/scleroderma (anti-PM/Scl) antibodies Sample number ... antibodies [22 ] Although none of 14 PM1-α-positive samples showed reactivity to the corresponding region of p25β, a more complex immunological relationship between the major PM/Scl-100 epitope ... PM/Scl-75 in cell extracts is notoriously weak in immunoblot, which may be due to the importance of conformational epitopes [15] This observation could be confirmed in the technical comparison of IIF,...
... possible to link structural lesions with symptoms based on anatomical location alone, the following syndromes are classic Focal lesions involving the convexities of the frontal lobes (or, more likely, ... integration of function and speed of processing Lesions more in the region of the centrum-semiovale may be more locally disruptive of function than productive of more global deficits (Bigler et al 20 02b, ... information not only about the individual’s executive function, but also attention, visuospatial function, registration of information, and recall For a listing of additional tests of frontal lobe...
... 20 0 normal blood donors With this software, the following six main patterns can be detected readily on HEp -2 cells: cytoplasmic, homogeneous, speckled, nucleolar, centromere, and multiple nuclear ... color: fluorescein isothiocyanate staining of autoantibody; blue color: 4’,6-diamidino -2- phenylindol staining of chromatin Figure Immunofluorescence patterns of two sera (a, b) which were both ... absolute signals like centrioles or nuclear dots can be detected The determination of threshold values for the differentiation of positive signals was conducted on the basis of RI values of 20 0...
... to be somewhat useful Critical Care October 20 02 Vol No Johnson et al Table Summary of survey results collected from recovery room nurses who used the Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT™) ... the LSTAT standard equipment used for physiologic monitoring (Protocol Systems Inc, Model Propaq Encore, Beaverton, OR, USA), an E cylinder filled with oxygen (holding 660 lof oxygen at 22 00 ... not obstructed, and the LSTAT was easy to maneuver Many respondents reported that consolidation of all the physiologic monitoring equipment and incorporation of a transport ventilator were all...
... Critical Care Vol 12 No Soldatos et al detection of elevated ICP but with some delay [7,8] Finally, TCD may detect alterations of cerebral blood flow caused by elevated ICP [2, 9-16] but also requires ... history of glaucoma, or who had known disease of the optic nerve (inflammation or tumour) TCD was not technically feasible because of bilateral absence of the sonic window in four patients and one ... unilateral TCD examination Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 12 No Soldatos et al Table Characteristics of the study population Characteristic Group A (control...
... studying brain functions such as memory and emotion Brain is composed primarily of two broad types of cells, neurons and glial cells Glial cells play a role to provide critical functions including ... accuracy of the estimated source location with known true location and temporal activity of the dipoles Solving the source localization problem includes challenging design of algorithms If the algorithms ... amplitudes of the equivalent current dipoles The EEG inverse problem is also well known as the source localization problem The objective to solve the source localization problem is 26 to assess...
... occurence of any such issues Conclusions On microPET imaging, 124 I-HuCC49deltaCH2 demonstrates an increased level of specific localization to tumor implants of LS174T colon adenocarcinoma cells as compared ... imaging platform in all of the xenograft mice As a last notable point of discussion, some may contend that the lack of specific localization of 18F- FDG to the LS174T tumor implant as compared to the ... http://www.wjso.com/content/8/1/65 31 Colcher D, Minelli MF, Roselli M, Muraro R, Simpson-Milenic D, Schlom J: Radioimmunolocalization of human carcinoma xenografts with B 72. 3 second generation monoclonal...
... fluorodeoxyglucose positronemissiontomography in mesenterial Castleman's lymphoma Clin Nucl Med 20 01, 26 :789-790 Blockmans D, Maes A, Stroobants S, Bobbaers H, Mortelmans L: FDG positronemission ... Journal of Medical Case Reports 20 08, 2: 99 abolically with 18F fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) -positron emissiontomography (PET) The patient was treated previously for prostatic adenocarcinoma with ... mesenterial lesion FDG-PET/CT transaxial views of the mesenterial lesion (A) PET; (B) low-dose CT; (C) PET/CT fusion Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports 20 08,...
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... of the benign pulmonary lesions (small arrows) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) World Journal of Surgical Oncology 20 08, 6:7 http://www.wjso.com/content/6/1/7 nate pulmonary nodules ... Kuenzle AK, Grimm F, Kadry Z, Clavien PA, Deplazes P, von Schulthess GK, Muellhaupt B, Ammann RW, Renner EL: F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positronemission tomographyof Echinococcus multilocularis ... [4] Lung is the second most common involved organ but it is hard to distinguish pulmonary echinococcosis from a variety of other pulmonary lesions especially metastatic lesions to the lung In women,...
... Gy10: biologic effective tumor dose; CT: computed tomography; 18F- FDG: 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose; GTV: gross tumor volume; Gy: Gray; NSCLC: non-small cell lung cancer; PET: positronemission tomography; ... cancer: 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose positronemission tomography/ computed tomography serial tumor response assessment Journal of Hematology & Oncology 20 10 3:6 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central ... Kaplan-Meier plot of local control Conclusions Local control and survival following CyberKnife radiosurgery for stage IA NSCLC is exceptional [18,19] However, high planned peritumoral lung doses...
... (number of mitoses, nuclear pleomorphism and necrosis) The histopathologic grading also reflects the prognosis of these tumors [2] On conventional radiology, MECs usually appear as oval or lobulated, ... Phel1-Tyr3-octreotide (68Ga-DOTATOC) findings in the histologically proved low grade left bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma Axial section ofpositronemissiontomography (PET), computed tomography ... mucoepidermoid carcinoma Axial section ofpositronemissiontomography (PET), computed tomography and PET-computed tomography images of18F FDG scan showing mild FDG uptake in the histologically proved...
... classification of nonHodgkin’s lymphoma Blood 1997, 89:3909 Lopez-Guillermo A, Colomo L, Jimenez M, Bosch F, Villamor N, Arenillas L, Muntañola A, Montoto S, Giné E, Colomer D, Beà S, Campo E, Montserrat ... Montserrat E: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: clinical and biological characterization and outcome according to the nodal or extranodal primary origin J Clin Oncol 20 05, 23 :27 97 -28 04 Kumar R, Xiu ... et al.: F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positronemissiontomography and/or computed tomography findings of an unusual breast lymphoma case and concurrent cervical cancer: a case report Journal of Medical...
... anterior mediastinotomy and bronchoscopy Bronchoscopy findings were normal, and cytological analysis of a transcarinal aspiration showed a small number of lymphocytes and macrophages Similarly, ... not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports 20 09, 3: 124 Cryptogenic organising pneumonia (sometimes known as BOOP) is well known to present, occasionally, as a solitary lesion, ... right upper lobe, paratracheal nodes, para-oesophageal nodes and hilar nodes All showed reactive changes only on the frozen section Following discussion with our oncologist in the operating theatre,...
... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports 20 08, 2: 239 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content /2/ 1 /23 9 F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positronemission tomography- computed ... and stroke (A) F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positronemission tomography- computed tomography showing fluorodeoxyglucose accumulation in the carotid arteries, ascending aorta, and the abdominal aorta ... mural thrombus (arrows) (E) Computed tomography and fluorodeoxyglucose positronemissiontomography revealing middle cerebral artery stroke (arrows) The inflammatory vascular lesion was evaluated...