B. Hervás-Sanz , I.E. Sánchez-Rodríguez , A. Fernández-Ortega , P. Perlaza-Jiménez , M. Cortés-Romera , J. Suils-Ramón
{"title":"Role of [18F]FDG PET/CT in the evaluation of inflammatory breast cancer: A case report","authors":"B. Hervás-Sanz , I.E. Sánchez-Rodríguez , A. Fernández-Ortega , P. Perlaza-Jiménez , M. Cortés-Romera , J. Suils-Ramón","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142335489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Filizoglu , S. Ozguven , F. Dede , H.T. Turoglu , T.Y. Erdil
{"title":"Solitary adrenal metastasis of breast cancer on [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TATE PET/CT","authors":"N. Filizoglu , S. Ozguven , F. Dede , H.T. Turoglu , T.Y. Erdil","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500061"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142305210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J.R. Infante, A. Utrera, A. Baena, R. Barco, A. Martínez, C. Durán, P. Jiménez, J. Serrano
{"title":"Determination of fundic accommodation in gastric emptying scintigraphy. Evaluation of its clinical usefulness","authors":"J.R. Infante, A. Utrera, A. Baena, R. Barco, A. Martínez, C. Durán, P. Jiménez, J. Serrano","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><div>Gastric emptying scintigraphy is used to assess patients with symptoms of dyspepsia or gastroparesis. An alteration of fundus accommodation may explain these symptoms. The aim of this study was to determine the accommodation in gastric emptying scintigraphy studies performed in our institution.</div></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><div>50 patients (43 children) referred for gastric emptying assessment were evaluated. After fasting for 8 h, and following international guidelines, egg labeling was performed with 37 mBq of [<sup>99</sup>mTc]Tc-DTPA and administration of standardized food. Areas of interest were defined in the stomach at different times, and the corresponding retention percentages were calculated. Considering the image at time zero, gastric accommodation was qualitatively and quantitatively assessed, calculating the ratio between proximal stomach counts and total counts.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Of the 50 patients studied, 32 had normal emptying, 10 had slowed emptying and 8 had accelerated emptying. Within the group of patients with normal emptying, 8 had altered accommodation (25%) and another 8 in the group with abnormal emptying (44%). Applying the ROC curve analysis to quantitative values, the most appropriate cut-off value was 0.785 with <em>p</em> < 0.001, sensitivity 82.4% and specificity 100%.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Gastric emptying scintigraphy in addition to determining motility, made it possible to assess both qualitatively and quantitatively the distribution of the radiotracer in the stomach and thus, indirectly, the accommodation in the fundus. It provided added diagnostic information in a simple manner, without protocol changes and allowing more specific treatments to be assessed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500051"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142142252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seda Gülbahar Ateş , Bedriye Büşra Demirel , Esra Kekilli , Erdem Öztürk , Gülin Uçmak
{"title":"Primary tumor heterogeneity on pre-treatment [68Ga]Ga-PSMA PET/CT for the prediction of biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer","authors":"Seda Gülbahar Ateş , Bedriye Büşra Demirel , Esra Kekilli , Erdem Öztürk , Gülin Uçmak","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>The aim of this study is to research the value of the texture analysis of primary tumors in pre-treatment [68Ga]Ga-PSMA PET in the prediction of the development of biochemical recurrence (BCR) in prostate cancer patients who underwent definitive therapies.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>51 patients with prostate adenocarcinoma who had a pre-treatment [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT and underwent definitive radiotherapy (RT) or radical prostatectomy (RP) were included in the study. Demographics, clinicopathologic features, the presence of BCR, and the last follow-up date of patients were recorded. Textural and conventional PET parameters (maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), total lesion-PSMA (TL-PSMA), and PSMA-tumor volume (PSMA-TV)) were obtained from PET/CT images using LifeX program. Parameters were grouped using the Youden index in ROC analysis. Factors predicting the BCR were determined using Cox regression analyses.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>29 (56.9%) patients have received primary curative RT, while the remaining 22 (43.1%) patients have undergone RP. 5 (22.7%) patients with RP and 3 (10.3%) patients with curative RT have developed BCR during the follow-up. INTENSITY-BASED-minimum grey level (<em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->.050), GLCM-sum variance (<em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->.019), and GLCM-cluster prominence (<em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->.050) were associated with BCR in univariate analysis. INTENSITY-BASED-minimum grey level (<em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->.009) and GLCM-sum variance (<em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->.004) were found as independent predictors of BCR in the multivariate analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Tumor heterogeneity on pre-treatment [68Ga]Ga-PSMA PET is associated with a high risk of BCR in PCa patients who underwent definitive therapies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500032"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supernumerary kidney fused to the isthmus of a horseshoe kidney, with subsequent nephroblastoma, identified with dynamic renal scintigraphy","authors":"S. Bondia-Bescós , L.J. Pregil , L. Biassoni","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142305211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association between 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) levels post-endocrine therapy in patients with prostate cancer and bone metastases","authors":"X. Ruan , Y. Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To investigate the association between positive lesions detected by 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT and blood levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa) and bone metastasis undergoing endocrine therapy.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A retrospective analysis was performed on 43 patients diagnosed with PCa bone metastasis who underwent endocrine therapy. PSA, ALP, whole body bone imaging and 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging were collected from all patients (Among them, 17 cases were re-examined 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging). According to the results of the first 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging for detecting bone metastasis, all cases were divided into two groups: positive group and negative group. The relationship between 99mTc-PSMA imaging and PSA and ALP was analyzed by ROC curve. Fisher exact probability method was used to examine the changes in imaging radioactivity uptake, PSA, and ALP levels in 17 patients after treatment, and <em>P</em> < 0.05 was statistically significant.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>All 43 patients had different degrees of radioactive concentrations on whole-body bone imaging. The first 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging showed positive bone metastases in 31 cases and negative bone metastases in 12 cases. ROC curve analysis of PSA and ALP, AUC were 0.778 and 0.770, respectively. When PSA > 1.13 ng/mL, 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging diagnostic sensitivity was 93.55%, and specificity was 66.67%. When ALP was >86U/L, the diagnostic sensitivity of 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging was 64.52%, and the specificity was 83.33%. In 17 cases, the PSA level decreased in 7 and increased in 10. There were 10 cases of increased ALP and 7 cases of decreased ALP levels. In the second 99mTc-PSMA imaging lesion, there were 9 cases with decreased or no uptake, and 8 cases with increased uptake or number of lesions. The changes in 99mTc-PSMA uptake by Fisher’s exact probability method were statistically significant (<em>P</em> < 0.05, <em>P</em> = 0.006, and <em>P</em> = 0.006, respectively), and ALP level was not statistically significant (<em>P</em> = 0.563).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT imaging can detect PCa bone metastases, which are related to PSA levels. When PSA > 1.13 ng/mL, the sensitivity of diagnosis and detection of positive bone metastases is higher, and when ALP is >86U/L, 99mTc-PSMA imaging has higher specificity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500054"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142305205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Karasah Erkek , H. Sariyildiz Gumusgoz , A. Oral , B. Yazici , A. Akgun
{"title":"Low dose radioactive iodine ablation therapy (1.11GBq) for differentiated thyroid cancer in Western Turkey","authors":"B. Karasah Erkek , H. Sariyildiz Gumusgoz , A. Oral , B. Yazici , A. Akgun","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Ablation therapy is employed in low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) cases to facilitate patient monitoring by reducing thyroglobulin (Tg) levels to measurable levels below after surgery by eliminating residual thyroid tissue. However, there is still uncertainty about the minimum activity dose required for effective ablation. Opting for low-dose [131I]-NaI for ablation offers several advantages for both patients and healthcare services. Particularly in this tumor group with a high life expectancy (approximately 90–95 % at 10 years), [131I]-NaI treatment should not pose a risk to the patient's post-treatment life and should not compromise their quality of life. However, there is a need for a well-defined identification of factors predicting successful ablation.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Clinical data, laboratory findings, and imaging tests of 287 patients with low-dose 1110 MBq (30 mCi) [131I]-NaI ablation therapy for DTC were retrospectively reviewed. Post-ablation imaging and laboratory findings categorized ablation success/failure. The successful ablation group was determined according to the excellent response criteria outlined in ATA criteria. Relationships between clinical, pathological findings, biochemical common variables, and treatment failure were analyzed.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>An excellent response was achieved in 77% of the entire group according to ATA criteria post-ablation. Male gender and high Tg levels on the day of ablation (Tg cut-off: 10 ng/mL and 5.35 ng/mL) were associated with unsuccessful ablation.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Our results indicate that a 1110MBq (30mCi) ablation dose is sufficient to achieve an excellent response in most low-risk DTC cases 6–12 months later. When selecting the dose for ablation, besides the histological markers mentioned in guidelines and age, we observed that stimulated Tg values and gender may be important in predicting ablation success.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":"43 6","pages":"Article 500055"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142305207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M S Casallas Cepeda, S Salcedo Córtes, I Gómez Fernández, J Orcajo Rincón, L Reguera Berenguer, E J Ardila Manjarrez, J J Ardila Mantilla, V Castillo Morales, J Gúzman Cruz, D Zamudio Rodríguez, A Marí Hualde, J E Montalvá Pastor, S Álvarez Lara, J C Alonso Farto
{"title":"Assessment of pulmonary nodules using [<sup>18</sup>F]-FDG PET/CT in deep inspiration breath-hold.","authors":"M S Casallas Cepeda, S Salcedo Córtes, I Gómez Fernández, J Orcajo Rincón, L Reguera Berenguer, E J Ardila Manjarrez, J J Ardila Mantilla, V Castillo Morales, J Gúzman Cruz, D Zamudio Rodríguez, A Marí Hualde, J E Montalvá Pastor, S Álvarez Lara, J C Alonso Farto","doi":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.remnie.2024.500074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The characterization of pulmonary nodules (PN) is a primary indication for [<sup>18</sup>F]-FDG PET/CT. However, respiratory movements hinder this characterization, especially for PN located in the lower lobes. Various methods have been developed to improve image resolution.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Our objective was to compare the diagnostic efficacy of [<sup>18</sup>F]-FDG PET/CT in deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) versus free-breathing corrected by software, in the evaluation of PN.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We prospectively analyzed 51 patients to assess PN using [<sup>18</sup>F]-FDG PET/CT in DIBH and free-breathing corrected by software. A total of 84 nodules with an average size of 10 mm were analyzed, with pathological anatomy or medical treatment decide by a multidisciplinary tumor board used as reference.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 84 PN were evaluated, comparing those in DIBH versus free-breathing, finding statistically significant differences in SUVmax values P(< 0.05) (mean SUVmax 3.7 in free-breathing vs. 5.33 in DIBH). When analyzed by location in lobes, we did not find statistically significant differences, though there was a trend towards higher SUVmax values in the lower lobes. [<sup>18</sup>F]-FDG PET/CT in DIBH showed high sensitivity (95%) and negative predictive value (NPV) (92%), indicating it may be a promising tool for PN characterization.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The acquisition of [<sup>18</sup>F]-FDG PET/CT in DIBH significantly improves the sensitivity and diagnostic efficacy in the assessment of PN. Although no statistically significant differences were found based on location, there is a potential benefit for the lower lobes. These findings could support its use in clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":94197,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular","volume":" ","pages":"500074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}