PET and Parathyroid - 09/08/11
Doi : 10.1016/j.cpet.2008.04.005
Gaia Grassetto, MD a, Abass Alavi, MD, PhD b, Domenico Rubello, MD a, ⁎ 
a Department of Nuclear Medicine, PET Center, ‘S. Maria della Misercordia’ Rovigo Hospital, Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV)-IRCCS, Viale Tre Martiri 140, 45100 Rovigo, Italy
b Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Corresponding author.Abstract |
In parathyroid disease, classical scintigraphic techniques remain the first choice for localizing hyperfunctional parathyroid glands in primary known hyperparathyroidism and in case of secondary, tertiary, and recurrent hyperparathyroidism. When classical scintigraphic techniques are not diagnostic, however, 11C-methionine seems to offer a good imaging alternative.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Keywords : Hyperparathyroidism, 99mTc-Sestamibi, PET/CT imaging, 11C-methionine
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Vol 2 - N° 3
P. 385-393 - juillet 2007 Regresar al número
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