201Tl imaging for differentiating between malignant and benign neck masses
| Autor: | Bozdemir K, Güney E, Ahmet Tutuş, Yiğitbaşi Og, Nardali M |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Diagnostico diferencial Scintigraphy Malignancy Sensitivity and Specificity Diagnosis Differential medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging False Positive Reactions Head and neck False Negative Reactions Histological examination Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Tomography Emission-Computed Single-Photon medicine.diagnostic_test Salivary gland business.industry Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Thallium Radioisotopes medicine.anatomical_structure Head and Neck Neoplasms Female Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear medicine communications. 19(6) |
| ISSN: | 0143-3636 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to assess the ability of 201 Tl scintigraphy to differentiate between malignant and benign neck masses. Fifty-eight patients with neck masses, whose diagnoses were confirmed by histological examination, were examined. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 201 T1 scintigraphy were 80%, 96% and 88% respectively; when salivary gland masses were excluded, these values were 87%, 95% and 91% respectively. Our results suggest that 201 T1 scintigraphy is highly reliable in determining the malignancy of neck masses, especially when salivary gland masses are excluded. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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