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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Pheochromocytoma ; MIBG scintigraphy ; Intraoperative staging
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) imaging is a well-established method for locating intra-and extraadrenal pheochromocytomas. We investigated whether preoperative injection of 123-I-MIBG might be useful for intraoperative staging of chromaffine tumor cells. This was performed in a 46-year-old patient in whom the diagnosis of a malignant pheochromocytoma had been established by 123-I-MIBG imaging and enhanced catecholamine secretion. The rationale for intraoperative staging in this patient was a discrepancy between computed tomography (CI) of the abdomen and the radionuclide imaging, because scintigraphy revealed a mass with MIBG uptake in the right lower abdomen that could not be visualized by CT. We thus applied a preoperative dose of 4 mCi 123-I-MIBG and determined tissue activity by direct organ measurement. A right abdominal mass was thus identified with an activity of 10×104 impulses/s as compared to normal tissue (15×102). The left-sided tumor was found to be identified correctly by prior CT and MIBG imaging. We thus conclude that intraoperative application of this single probe measurement might help to identify chromaffine tumor cells that have not been located fully by CT.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Pheochromocytoma ; Catecholamines ; Scintigraphy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary In a retrospective study of 31 patients with suspected pheochromocytoma we examined the preoperative results of131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (131-I-MIBG) scintigraphy and a fluorimetric urine catecholamine determination test. An additional radioenzymatic plasma catecholamine determination test was performed in 25 patients. In 14 of the 31 patients the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma was later histologically confirmed. In the remaining 17 patients the suspected diagnosis was finally rejected after a clinical decision had been made on the basis of clinical history, symptoms, laboratory and imaging tests. 131-I-MIBG scintigraphy apparently had a very high specificity (no false-positive results among the patients with rejected diagnosis), but showed the least sensitivity (3 of 14 tumours were not detected). Urine cate-cholamines showed two false-negative and three false-positive results. Plasma catecholamines had the highest sensitivity and gave only one false-positive result. Because of its high pathognomonic value 131-MIBG scintigraphy can be helpful not only for localization, but also for confirmation of diagnosis when catecholamine determination tests are contradictory. On the basis of our experience with false-positive results after interfering medication therapy, urine and plasma catecholamine determination tests should only be carried out after purification with thin layer chromatography or high performance liquid chromatography.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1437-9813
    Keywords: Biliary atresia ; Neonatal hepatitis ; Cholestatic syndrome ; Ultrasound examination ; Cholescintigraphy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Thirty-three neonates and infants with cholestatic syndromes of various etiologies were evaluated by cholescintigraphy and ultrasound examinations. The results of these two diagnostic procedures were compared with the final diagnosis as confirmed by liver biopsy and/or laparotomy and the clinica follow-up of the infants. Fourteen patients had an obstructive cholangiopathy (11 biliary atresia, 2 choledochal cysts, 1 congenital choledochal stenosis), 13 had neonatal hepatitis, and 6 had cholestasis of another etiology. Typical ultrasonic and/or scintigraphic findings confirmed or excluded the need for surgical exploration in 28 patients. Thus, for must infants with cholestatic syndromes it is possible to differentiate the cause without invasive diagnostic techniques such as liver biopsy or exploratory laparotomy.
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  • 4
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    European journal of nuclear medicine 15 (1989), S. 1-8 
    ISSN: 1619-7089
    Keywords: Cerebral blood flow ; 99mTc-HMPAO ; 195mAu ; SPECT ; Three compartment model ; Uptake kinetics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The activity concentrations of 99mTc-HMPAO in brain after intravenous injection were evaluated in 25 patients using SPECT. With additional first pass studies of heart and brain with the short lived isotope 195mAu, the cardiac output and the mean cerebral transit times of the patients were measured a short time before the HMPAO injection. The time dependence of 99mTc-HMPAO activity in the brain was registered during the first 5 min after injection over both hemispheres. Using a simplified three compartment model it was possible to calculate the mean retention fraction of HMPAO in brain from the time activity curves. It could be shown that the regional cerebral blood flow in ml/min per 100 g can be calculated from the activity concentration of HMPAO in the brain, the cardiac output and the retention fraction. In 15 of the 25 cases the rCBF was measured using the planar 133Xe inhalation method as a reference. We found a significant correlation between the mean hemisphere CBF from our method and the mean hemisphere grey matter CBF from the Xenon method with a correlation coefficient of 0.73.
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