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Current abstracts of the articles published in the Japanese journal of nuclear medicine
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Comparison of whole-body 18F-FDG PET, 99mTc-MIBI SPET, and post-therapeutic 131I-Na scintigraphy in the detection of metastatic thyroid cancer
The usefulness of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has been demonstrated by many investigators, but in only a small number of studi...
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Chemo-radionuclide therapy for thyroid cancer: Initial experimental study with cultured cells
Radioiodine therapy has long been used for distant metastases of thyroid cancer. Although partially effective in most cases, it can render a complete cure only in a limited number of patients. One way to enhan...
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A patient with two thyroid papillary carcinomas demonstrating hot and cold lesions on 123I thyroid scintigraphy
A 44-year-old euthyroid woman had two palpable nodules in the thyroid gland. 123I thyroid scintigraphy showed a hot nodule in the right lobe and a cold one in the left lobe. Total thyroidectomy was performed, and...
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Causes of appearance of scintigraphic hot areas on thyroid scintigraphy analyzed with clinical features and comparative ultrasonographic findings
This study was done retrospectively to analyze the ultrasonographic (US) findings in thyroid scintigraphic hot areas (HA). Three-thousand, eight-hundred and thirty-nine consecutive patients who underwent99mTc-per...
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Clinical diagnosis: Muscular sarcoidosis
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Brain metastasis from differentiated thyroid cancer in patients treated with radioiodine for bone and lung lesions
Brain metastasis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) often is detected during treatment of other remote lesions. We examined the prevalence, risk factors and treatment outcome of this disease encountered du...
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Binding of a human monoclonal antithyroglobulin antibody to cultured human thyroid cancer cells
To develop a new method of radioimmunodetection for thyroid cancer, we tested the binding ability of a human antithyroglobulin monoclonal antibody, VB5, to primary culture of human thyroid cancer cells.
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Transient thyrotoxicosis in a patient with a functioning nodule; A possible occurrence of silent thyroiditis
A 48-year-old woman with diffuse goiter presented with typical symptoms and signs of thyrotoxicosis. Thyroid scanning with I-123 revealed a localized accumulation of the radionuclide in the left lobe which cor...
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Recruitment of T lymphocytes and induction of tumor necrosis factor in thyroid cancer by a local immunotherapy
To elucidate the mechanism of action for intratumoral injection of immunopotentiators, infiltrating mononuclear cells and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) were assayed by immunostaining tissue samples of differenti...
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Thyrotoxic graves’ disease with normal thyroidal technetium-99m pertechnetate uptake
We saw 24 thyrotoxic Graves’ patients with normal thyroidal uptake of technetium-99m pertechnetate (99mTc) out of 201 untreated thyrotoxic Graves’ patients seen over 4 years. The clinical and laboratory findings ...
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Transient Hypothyroidism in Infants due to Maternal TSH-Receptor Blocking Antibodies-Character of Their IgG and Long-Term Prognosis of Their Infants
Transient neonatal hypothyroidism in infants born to mothers with chronic thyroidism, first reported in 1960 by Sutherland et al.l), has been established as an important diseases entity in the newborn period. Tra...
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Thyrotropin-Binding Inhibitor Immunoglobulins in Primary Hypothyroidism
It is now widely accepted that immunoglobulins which inhibit the binding of 125-I-labeled thyrotropin to its receptor (TBII) are present not only in most patients with Graves’ disease, but also in some sera fr...
