2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography versus conventional imaging for the diagnosis of breast cancer and lymph node metastases.

Context: Proper preoperative staging is vital in the treatment of breast cancer patients. Fluorine-18-labeled 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-FDG-PET/CT) and conventional diagnostic modalities including ultrasonography (US), mammography (MG), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) play a greater role.

Aims: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET in detecting primary breast cancer as compared with US, MG, and MRI, and in axillary lymph nodes (ALNs) staging in Chinese women.

Muscular damage in a patient with hepatitis B induced by beta-l-2'-deoxythymidine and detected by F-FDG PET/CT.

A 58 years old man under 2'-Deoxy-L-thymidine treatment for his hepatitis B was admitted to our hospital complaining for the last 2 months of recurrent upper abdomen discomfort, fatigue and weight loss of 10 kilograms and general muscular soreness, for 2 weeks. He had elevated creatine kinase (CK), myoglobin, CK-MB and other related or common laboratory findings. Fluorine-18- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) showed a diffuse, homogenous, moderately elevated glucose uptake in all muscle groups.

A pediatric malignant paraganglioma and brief review of the literature.

Unlabelled: A 10 years old boy presented to our hospital complaining of belly pain. He had a retroperitoneal mass diagnosed by ultrasound 3 days before. During that time he was found to have slight hypertension.

Pulsed electrical stimulation protects neurons in the dorsal root and anterior horn of the spinal cord after peripheral nerve injury.

Most studies on peripheral nerve injury have focused on repair at the site of injury, but very few have examined the effects of repair strategies on the more proximal neuronal cell bodies. In this study, an approximately 10-mm-long nerve segment from the ischial tuberosity in the rat was transected and its proximal and distal ends were inverted and sutured. The spinal cord was subjected to pulsed electrical stimulation at T10 and L3, at a current of 6.