Clinical nuclear medicine

A 77-year-old woman was referred for Ga-67 scan to evaluate intermittent fever and chills that had lasted more than 20 days. The Ga-67 whole-body scan revealed a doughnut-shaped Ga-67 accumulation in the lower abdominal region. Combined Ga-…

Varicocele, a varicosity of the gonadal venous plexus, is a well-recognized disorder occurring in up to 10% of men. In women, an analogous varicosity of the salpingo-ovarian plexus is rare. This may be explained, in part, by the lack of obv…

A pelvic hypervascular blush often creates a diagnostic dilemma during radionuclide abdominal imaging studies in females. This blush is shown to be due to uterine vascularity that is more prominent in the secretory and menstrual phases of t…

A 42-year-old woman presented with intermittent low back and left lower extremity pain. The blood flow and blood pool images of bone scintigraphy showed a large focus of increased activity in the right lower abdomen. Computed tomography sho…

Familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia, a syndrome involving an abnormal affinity of albumin for thyroxine, results in elevated total thyroxine and free thyroxine index levels but normal triiodothyronine resin uptake and thyroid-stimulat…