Efficacy and safety of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: a systematic review.

Purpose: Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is an innovative radiation therapy with significant potential in cancer treatment. This systematic review aimed to comprehensively evaluate the efficacy, safety, and applicability of BNCT across various cancer types.

Methods And Materials: Following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, we conducted a systematic search in PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane CENTRAL, ClinicalTrials.

Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy Associated with Probable Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Association of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) with pulmonary tuberculosis is rarely reported, especially with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SNPT), in which its diagnosis is a challenge. We used a systematic approach to analyze all relevant literature reviews, and we identified only two cases of HOA associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in the last 10 years. We report the case of a 36-year-old man who presented with bilateral symmetric polyarthralgia and digital clubbing.

A rare case of pituitary metastasis from breast cancer detected on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography that presented as insipid diabetes.

Pituitary metastases are rare, are generally asymptomatic, and often remain undiagnosed. Breast cancer is the most common primary cancer metastasizing to hypophysis in women. However, it is difficult to clinically and radiologically differentiate pituitary metastases from pituitary adenomas.

Unsuspected Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastasis Detected by FDG PET/CT.

Intramedullary spinal cord metastases (SCMs) are extremely rare. Here, we report a case of a 60-year-old man with a history of right nonsmall cell lung cancer treated by concomitant radiochemotherapy who complained, 9 months after treatment completion, of chest pain, breath shortness, and more recently back pain. An F-FDG PET/CT was performed as part of the restaging process and showed a hypermetabolic mass of the right lung in addition to ipsilateral mediastinal hypermetabolic lymph nodes.

Peritoneal Super Scan on F-FDG PET/CT in two patients with Lymphoma.

  Peritoneal lymphomatosis is an extremely rare presentation of lymphoma. Due to its relative low frequency, it receives much less attention than peritoneal carcinomatosis. The challenge is to differentiate between lymphomatosis and carcinomatosis, as well as peritoneal tuberculosis or other pathologic entities within the peritoneal cavity based essentially on radiologic features.

A case of Tietze's syndrome visualized on PET/CT-FDG.

We report an interesting image of a 49-year-old woman revealed with Tietze's syndrome (TS) by ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT. She presented with right upper sternum pain with a hard and fixed palpable mass. Chest radiograph and CT-Scanner revealed no abnormalities.

Striatal hypermetabolism in a case of IgG4-related disease.

A 77 years-old man with lung and bone involvement of proven IgG4-related disease complained of tree month's memory deficits. Brain MRI was normal. 18F-FDG whole body PET/CT showed in addition to the bone lesions, a marked symmetrical striatal hypermetabolism in contrast with cortical hypometabolism.

Inter observer reproducibility of SPECT-low dose CT in classifying indeterminate lesion on planar bone scan in oncologic diseases.

Aim: to assess the inter observer reproducibility of Single Photon Computed Tomography-Computerised Tomography (SPECT-CT) in classifying indeterminate foci of abnormal metabolism on planar bone scan (PBS), in oncologic diseases, in the limit of performance of a low dose CT.

Methods: 49 patients (27 men, 22 women) whose PBS showed indeterminate lesions underwent SPECT/CT. The mean age was 57 ± 13 years (range 22-80 years).

Pulmonary tumor diagnosed as an undifferentiated sarcoma with epithelioid features: a case report.

Background: Pulmonary sarcomas are uncommon accounting for 0.5 % of all primary lung cancers. Undifferentiated sarcomas account for up to 20 % of soft tissue sarcomas.

[Differential diagnosis of reduced uptake images revealed by bone scan: about a case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia].

If increased uptake during bone scan usually bring to light many bone pathologies, reduced uptakes are a rare occurrence and they require careful analysis to avoid erroneous interpretations. We report the case of a 17-year old admitted with diffuse bone pain, hypercalcemia and thrombopenia. Bone scan showed areas of low uptakes.

Functioning Metastases from Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma in Bone.

Functioning thyroid metastases are a rare cause of hyperthyroidism. Most are follicular carcinoma. Here, we report a case in which a 62-y-old man with a history of right subtotal thyroidectomy for a benign adenoma complained of symptoms of hyperthyroidism associated with left arm pain.