Small bowel carcinoid tumor causing intestinal ischemia: A case report with review of the literature.

Intestinal carcinoid tumors are well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors that are capable of secreting bioactive hormones and/or amines; These tumors are uncommon but are the most common primary tumors of the small intestine. We report the case of an 80-year-old woman who presented with a long history (about 14 years ago) of atypical digestive symptoms such as vague abdominal pain, alternating diarrhea, and constipation, treated as functional colopathy without improvement, until the day when she presented with worsening pain that prompted her consultation. CT scan revealed typical manifestations of a carcinoid tumor associated with signs of subacute small bowel ischemia.

Primary hyperparathyroidism: Correlation between cervical ultrasound and MIBI scan.

Introduction: The standard gold treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) is parathyroidectomy. Imaging in particular, cervical ultrasound (US) and technetium-99 m- méthoxyisobutylisonitrileparathyroid scintigraphy using the single-photon emission computed tomography (TC-99 m-MIBI-SPECT) are always indicated prior to parathyroid surgery, allowing the location of parathyroid adenomas. The objective of our study is to evaluate the contribution of TC-99 m-MIBI-SPECT and US in the preoperative topographic diagnosis of PHP.

Cat-scratch disease and bone scintigraphy.

Cat-scratch disease is a bacterial infection caused by Bartonella henselae. Bone involvement is rare. We describe the case of a 7-year-old boy with a systemic form of the disease.

[Nuclear medicine procedures in paediatric patients].

The paediatricians rely primarily scintigraphic examinations in two situations: when they need functional information to decide operation (measurement of separate function of each kidney for example) or when they want to know if a bone disease is involved, in front of a sudden onset of musculoskeletal disorder. Kidney and bone scan represent 85% of applications for examinations. Some scintigraphic examinations have an essential role in the therapeutic evaluation and staging of malignancies such as MIBG-123 scintigraphy in neuroblastoma and FDG-18F scintigraphy in lymphoma.