Annals of nuclear medicine
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Clinical Trial
Gated myocardial perfusion SPECT for preoperative risk stratification in patients with noncardiac vascular disease.
Myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is useful for preoperative cardiac risk stratification. We investigated the value of preoperative pharmacologic stress electrocardiographic (ECG)-gated myocardial perfusion SPECT for noncardiac vascular surgery. ⋯ Pharmacologic stress ECG-gated myocardial perfusion SPECT, which permits assessment of both myocardial perfusion and cardiac function, is useful for preoperative risk stratification of noncardiac vascular surgery.
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Comparative Study
Comparative study of FDG PET/CT and conventional imaging in the staging of rhabdomyosarcoma.
The current study was conducted to compare the diagnostic accuracy between (18)F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D: -glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT), and conventional imaging (CI) for the staging and re-staging of patients with rhabdomyosarcomas. ⋯ FDG PET/CT is more accurate than CI regarding clinical staging and re-staging of patients with rhabdomyosarcomas.