Published in Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Background: The relative dosimetry plays vital part in treatment planning of patients. Factors such as percent depth doses, tissue maximum ratios, tray factors, wedge factors, etc., determined from the relative dosimetry, affects the patient dose. The current study intended at measuring and evaluating the wedge factor for different field sizes and ...
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Ra-223 therapy is recommended for Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) patients with bone metastases. The standard protocol is 5-6 cycles of therapy with 4 weeks intervals to gain survival benefit. We report a case of a chemo-naïve CRPC patient who after 1.5 years of androgendeprivation therapy had widespread bone metastases, PSA of 4186 ng/...
Published in Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine
A case of a patient with primary lymphoedema where the scan pattern could have easily been confused with that of secondary lymphoedema is presented. This image pattern though occasionally seen has not previously been reported.
Published in Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Aims: The study aimed at measuring the external radiation doses to workers from patients who were administered radiopharmaceuticals in the nuclear medicine department. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiation safety procedures in the department of nuclear medicine. Methods: A total of 80 patients were randomly selected for the study....
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Background: A 24-year-old male had a road traffic accident in which he sustained a crush injury to his right lower leg and a compound fracture of the right femur, which were respectively treated with below knee amputation and metallic nailing of the right femur. The patient presented to the outpatient clinic 7 years later with 1-month history of pa...
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Background: Cancer patients are at a higher risk for any cardiac event during and post surgery, due to an altered coagulation state and anemia, and can have additive effect if the patient had previous history of any cardiac event or risk factor for coronary artery disease such as hypertension and diabetes. Methods: 100 consecutive patients, who wer...
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We report a case established of Milwaukee shoulder syndrome (apatite-associated destructive arthritis) and describe the bone scintigraphic, radiologic and histologic findings, which are compared with a similar case of rapid noncrystal- deposition arthritis. The cases shall add to the differential diagnosis of shoulder arthropathy on bone scintigrap...
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Personalized medicine is an emerging medicalfield. Targetted radionuclide therapies for benign and malignant diseases have been in use since 1945. Over the last 20 years due to advancements in the nanotechnology and targeting cell receptors, radionuclide therapies have emerged as a subspecialty of nuclear medicine. Through this article, we would li...
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Background: A 48-yearold woman underwent total thyroidectomy for a multinodular goiter. Histopathological examination revealed papillary thyroid carcinoma. The patient was referred to the nuclear medicine department for ablative dose of iodine-131 iodine (3.7 GBq) and post therapy radioiodine scan. Thyroglobulin level was at 11 ng/ml. Procedure: Pl...
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Background: Bone is the second most frequent target of distant metastases in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). However, there is a controversy regarding the longterm outcome of the breast cancer patients wtih bone metastases. This study therefore was designed with the objective of assessing the clinical characteristics related to t...
