Clinical nuclear medicine
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Clinical nuclear medicine · Jun 1999
Case ReportsAnterior chest wall pain in postpartum costochondritis.
Costochondritis is a common diagnosis in patients with anterior chest wall pain in whom serious disease has been excluded. The diagnosis is usually made on clinical grounds, because laboratory and imaging investigations usually provide little information. The authors describe a young woman with postpartum costochondritis and discuss the role of bone scintigraphy in confirming the clinical diagnosis.
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It may be difficult to evaluate back pain in patients who have undergone spinal surgery, because symptoms may be secondary to all the possible abnormalities in patients who have not had surgery plus postoperative complications, including infection, unstable fusion sites, or transfer of biomechanical stresses to other regions. ⋯ Bone SPECT was useful in evaluating these patients to exclude bony lesions or to identify pseudarthrosis, abnormal facets, disc space-centered lesions, and sacroilitis.
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Clinical nuclear medicine · Dec 1997
Case Reports Comparative StudyNeurofibromatosis type 2 (bilateral acoustic schwannomas) demonstrated by Tc-99m (V) DMSA SPECT.
Tc-99m (V) DMSA clearly demonstrated several cranial meningiomas, bilateral acoustic neurinomas and multiple subcutaneous neurofibromas in a patient of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF-2). The present paper describes accumulation of Tc-99m (V) DMSA in cranial schwannomas and meningiomas as well as multiple peripheral neurofibromas.