User perceptions about resources based on the Wheelchair Skills Training Program for training indoor and community wheelchair skills in pediatrics: a descriptive qualitative study.

Purpose: The Wheelchair Skills Training Program (WSTP) is underutilized in pediatrics for training manual wheelchair skills because the voluminous manual lacks pediatric specificity and no materials adapted for pediatric manual wheelchair users (PMWUs) are available. A set of resources (storybook, posters, training workbook) based on the WSTP has previously been developed for training basic indoor wheelchair skills with five to 15-year-old PMWUs. Occupational therapists (OTs) and PMWUs expressed a need for additional resources addressing higher-level skills.

[A comparaison between the total PSA, the Gleason score and the bone scintiscan results for different age groups].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study is to compare de results of the bone scintigraphy of prostate cancer patients in different age groups with their total PSA (PSAt) and with their histopathological test results. MATERIALS AND METODS: Of the 180 patients with prostate cancer who were analyzed by Scintiscan in the last five years in our laboratory, 86 have a known PSAt value, and of these, 55 have a known Gleason Score. The 180 patients were divided into three age groups: (1) < or equal 60 years; (2) 60-70 years and (3) >70 years.

Image processing in myocardial SPECT acquisition.

Image processing for the imagistic medicine domain nuclear medicine have long time being realised through specifical protocols which rarely allowed the intervention of other informatical modalities. Processing depends first of all on the acquisition type. This paper presents the steps of one of the most complex image processing protocols, in the case of myocardial SPECT acquisition (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography).

[Multiple perfusion defects detected by scintigraphy].

Pulmonary embolism is a cause of death and the most common pathological condition involving the lungs of hospitalized patients. Early detection can rise prognosis of survival. In this case presented below, a patient suspected of pulmonary embolism was sent to our department, for assessing the lung perfusion, performing the pulmonary perfusion scintigram with 99mTc-MAA for establishing a diagnosis.

[Sequential esophageal scintigraphy contribution on cardia achalasia diagnosis].

Achalasia is a mortality disorder described in 1674 by Willis. It has a small incidence in the general population. The main symptom is dysphagia.

[The scintigraphic assessment of the patients suffering from cardia achalasia, treated by pneumatic dilatation].

The esophageal scintigraphy is a technique used to evaluate the motility and the clearance of the esophagus. The patients with achalasia of the cardia were evaluated, before treating them with pneumatic dilatation and after. The reason is to evaluate the efficiency of the pneumatic dilatation technique in the treatment of esophageal achalasia.