[Pheochromocytoma in internal medicine: distinctive features and place of 123I MIBG scintigraphy].

Purpose: Pheochromocytoma diagnosis uses the localization of the tumour, particularly thanks to MIBG scintigraphy. The aims of this study were to evaluate the sensibility and specificity of this exam, his opportunity towards clinical and biological profile of patients with pheochromocytoma suspicion in Internal Medicine and towards others techniques of imaging. We tried to define the most effective and least expensive approach of pheochromocytoma diagnosis.

Functional evaluation by quantitative dimercaptosuccinic Acid scintigraphy after kidney trauma in children.

Purpose: Most pediatric surgical teams have adopted nonoperative treatment for a traumatic kidney lesion in children. In the emergency setting and at long-term followup dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scintigraphy enables us to identify the consequences on global renal function as well as on the function of each individual kidney.

Materials And Methods: Eight boys and 12 girls between 0.

Myocardial perfusion and function imaging at rest with simultaneous thallium-201 and technetium-99m blood-pool dual-isotope gated SPECT.

Unlabelled: We present a simultaneous gated SPECT (G-SPECT) dual-isotope technique using 201Tl for perfusion and 99mTc blood-pool labeling for function imaging.

Methods: Seventeen patients (13 with previous myocardial infarction, MI) and a control group of three normal volunteers were investigated. They received, 15 min after a 201Tl stress/redistribution protocol with reinjection, 900-950 MBq 99mTc-HSA for blood-pool labeling.