201T1 imaging for differentiating between malignant and benign neck masses

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 555-560

  YiGkitbaSci O G ^a   TutuS A ^b   Bozdemir, K ^a   Nardali, M ^b   GuNey E ^a  

^a Departments of ENT Head and Neck Surgery   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NECK TUMOR; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; ADOLESCENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031593321     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199806000-00007     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. McGurit WF, McCabe DF. Significance of node biopsy before definitive treatment of cervical metastatic carcinoma. Laryngoscope 1978; 88: 594-597.
2. Wang RC, Goepfert H, Barber AE, Annabel E, Wolf P. Unknown primary squamous cell carcinoma metastatic to the neck. Arch Otolaryngol 1990; 116: 1388-1393.
3. Noyek AM, Witterick IJ, Kirsh JC. Radionuclide imaging in otolaryngology: Head and neck surgery. Arch Otolaryngol 1991; 117: 372-378.
4. Wallner KE, Galieich JH, Arbit E. Inability of computed tomography appearance of recurrent malignant astrocytoma to predict survival following reoperation. J Clin Oncol 1989; 7: 1492-1496.
5. Drossman SR, Schiff RG, Kronfeld GD, McNamara J, Leonidas JC. Lymphoma of the mediastinum and neck: Evaluation with Ga-67 imaging and CT correlation. Radiology 1990; 174: 171-175.
6. Beierwaltes WH. Endocrine imaging in the management of goitre and thyroid nodules. Part I. J Nucl Med 1991; 32: 1455-1461.
7. Ercan MT, Aras T, Akta§ A, Kaya S, Bekdik CK. Accumulation of 99mTc-glutathione in head and neck tumors. Nucl Med 1994; 33: 224-228.
8. Kaplan WD, Takvorian T, Morris JH, Rumbaugh CL, Con-noly BT. Thallium-201 brain tumor imaging: A comparative study with pathologic correlation. J Nucl Med 1987; 28: 47-52.
9. El-Desouki M. Tl-201 thyroid imaging in differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules. Clin Nucl Med 1991; 16: 425-130.
10. Ragep A, El Gazzar AH, Abdel Dayem HM. A comparative study between planar Ga-67, Tl-201, chest X-ray and X-ray CT scans in inoperable non-small cell carcinoma of the lung. Eur J Nucl Med 1993; 20: 838-841.
11. Waxman A, Ramanna L, Memsic A. Thallium scintigraphy in the determination of malignant from benign mass abnormalities of the breast. J Nucl Med 1990; 31: 767-770.
12. Ganz WI, Nguyen TQ, Benedetto MP. Use of early, late and SPECT thallium-201 imaging to evaluate activity of soft tissue and bone tumors. J Nucl Med 1993; 34: 33-36.
13. Hisada K, Tanomi N, Miyamae T. Clinical evaluation of tumor imaging with Tl-201 chloride. Radiology 1978; 129: 497-500.
14. Ochi H, Sawa H, Fukuda T. Thallium-201 chloride scintigraphy to evaluate benign and/or malignant nodules: Usefulness of the delayed scan. Cancer 1982; 50: 236-240.
15. Muller SP, Guth-Togelidis B, Piotrowski B. Tl-201 scintigraphy in the follow-up of eosinophilic thyroid carcinoma. J Nucl Med 1990; 31: 407-411.
16. Makimoto K, Ohmura M, Tamada A. Combined scintiscans in the diagnosis of thyroid carcinomas. Acta Otolaryngol 1985; 419: 189-194.
17. Tagawa T, Yui N, Kinoshita F, Shimada F, Omura K. Visualization of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with Tl-201 chloride and a three-head rotating gamma camera SPECT system. Ann Nucl Med 1993; 7: 105-113.
18. El-Gazzar AH, Sahweil H, Abdel-Dayem HM. Experience with thallium-201 imaging in head and neck cancer. Clin Nucl Med 1988; 13: 286-290.
19. Mukherji SK, Drane WE, Tart RP, Landau S, Mancuso AA. Comparison of thallium-201 and F-18 FDG SPECT uptake in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Am J Neuroradiol 1994; 15: 1837-1842.