Preoperative 99mTc-sestamibi scintigraphy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and concomitant nodular goiter: Comparison of SPECT-CT, SPECT, and planar imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1070-1076

  Shafiei, Babak ^a,b   Hoseinzadeh, Samaneh ^b   Fotouhi, Fereidoun ^a   Malek, Hadi ^d   Azizi, Fereidoun ^c   Jahed, Adel ^e   Hadaegh, Farzad ^c   Salehian, Mohammadtaghi ^b   Parsa, Hossein ^f   Javadi, Hamid ^g   Assadi, Majid ^h  

^a Erfan Hospital   (Iran)

^b Taleghani Hospital   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^f QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h BUSHEHR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

hyperparathyroidism; parathyroid adenoma; parathyroid scintigraphy; single photon emission computed tomography computed tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PLANAR SCINTIGRAPHY IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID GLAND; PARATHYROID TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84865780890     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32835710b6     Document Type: Article

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