Absence of hepatic activity in lymphoscintigraphy performed with Tc-99m-Nanoscan
| Autor: | Manuela Vadrucci, Victoria Gibson, Adeel Syed, Danielle Levart, A. Michael Peters |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Adolescent Urinary system Urine 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin Lower extremity swelling business.industry Stomach General Medicine Middle Aged Peripheral medicine.anatomical_structure Liver 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female Lymph business Nuclear medicine Lymphoscintigraphy |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear medicine communications. 41(6) |
| ISSN: | 1473-5628 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION For assessment of lower extremity swelling using lymphoscintigraphy, several nuclear medicine departments in the UK have recently switched from Tc-Nanocoll to Tc-Nanoscan. The aim of the study was to compare quantitative and semiquantitative features of lymphoscintigraphy between these two tracers. METHODS Twenty patients received Tc-Nanocoll and 20 received Tc-Nanoscan either side of the switch-over in our department. Tracers were compared with respect to visualisation of the liver, para-aortic lymph nodes and urine (all graded by consensus from 0 to 3; invisible-to-very prominent); and with respect to ilio-inguinal nodal quantification and ratio of liver-to-summed bilateral ilio-inguinal nodal activity at 120 min postinjection (L/N120). Scans were deemed abnormal when there was lymph diversion through skin or deep system, no activity in ilio-inguinal nodes at 60 min or negligible ilio-inguinal activity ( |
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