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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
PET CT scan
Positron emission tomography
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), which is introduced into the body on a biologically active molecule. Three-dimensional images of tracer concentration within the body are then constructed by computer analysis. In modern scanners, three dimensional imaging is often accomplished with the aid of a CT X-ray scan performed on the patient during the same session, in the same machine...
PET CT scan - List of case studies
- Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
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and shows the bone marrow to be clean. Full body Pet scan done I in November last year shows nothing. CT Chest scan done in 04/2008 came out as all clear. After the ...
- Cancer of Colon with Metastases
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were revealed. Three months after starting chemotherapy a CT revealed recurrent hepatic disease and celiac lymphadenopathy. He underwent ... surgery, by his own initiative, the patient had a PET scan which showed two hepatic lesions in segments IV and VII, ...
- Secondary Malignancy in mesentery following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps
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mass with adenopathy. These lesions had FDG uptake on PET scan. questions: ... Diagnosis : Secondary Malignancy in mesentery (PET/CT- Aug 2008), following primary rectal cancer with multiple colonic polyps ...
- Massive Portal and Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis
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gastric varicose veins (F1).” - Total body PET scan (11/2009): “ Consistently with the resolution power of the ... or other intestinal inflammation . However the CT results did tell of hepatic cysts and polycystic liver disease should be ...
- Portosystemic Encephalopathy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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re-evaluation, complete remission PET scan and a persisting residual mass at CT scan . • Since then severe neutropenia and appearance of ...
- Metastatic, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
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SOL of LLL, multiple lung nodules, upper abdomen mass per CT 09/09 2 Transcutaneous lung SOL biopsy 3 Chronic renal failure 4 ... and bone lesions are confirmed to be neoplastic (Biopsy or PET/CT), radiation therapy or even surgery would still be possible. ...
- Advanced Metastatic Colon Cancer
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of the liver. The disease had been first diagnosed by CT and PET CT scans, the histology was achieved by colonoscopic puncture of a tumour ...
- Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma of the lung
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- PET SCAN : pathological accumulation of the radioactive marked glucose ... - CT guided lung needle biopsy : non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ...
- Rectal Carcinoma, Gastric Carcinoma, Metastases.
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ring cells, at pT3N2 stage. A preoperative full-body PET Scan demonstrated the presence of lesions with elevated carbohydrate ... Attached is the report for the chest and abdomen CT scans dated 01/2009, which for the most part gave negative findings. ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix
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neuroendocrine carcinoma. The findings of the PET-FDG test showed pathological absorption of FDG as a primary tumor of the ... fertility. Recommendations : Urgent PET CT is required, to evaluate these findings. Report – Pathology ... was demonstrated to prove metastatic spread with the PET scan to the lung area, liver, spleen, adrenals and skeleton. In Summary: ...