Publications by authors named "Stephanie Hassler"
A 53-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of left inguinocrural and lumbar pain and anorexia with weight loss. No fever was reported. The patient had no prior pelvic surgery.
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- The study focuses on optimizing preoperative imaging for patients with primary hyperparathyroidism to locate hyperfunctioning parathyroid glands accurately for surgery.
- It compares two imaging techniques: planar scintigraphy and hybrid SPECT/CT using the dual-isotope method, analyzing their effectiveness in a group of 50 patients.
- Results showed that while both methods had similar sensitivity, SPECT/CT had higher specificity, particularly benefiting patients with thyroid disease, leading to the recommendation to use SPECT/CT primarily for better surgical guidance.
Purpose: In patients experiencing colorectal carcinoma, exhaustive analysis of indicates extent of hepatic and pulmonary surgery that prolongs survival of patients.
Patients And Methods: To localize metastasis, we compared 2 F-FDG PET-CT imaging protocols, early respiratory gated scan, and delayed scan, to standard PET imaging procedure. SUVmax and lesion-to-healthy tissue ratio were measured in 60 pulmonary and 21 hepatic lesions by each of the 2 imaging protocols.
Background: The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of a novel imaging modality, three-dimensional (3D) metabolic and radiologic gathered evaluation (MeRGE), for localizing parathyroid adenomas (PAs).
Methods: Consecutive patients presenting with primary hyperparathyroidism who underwent both thin-slice cervical computed tomography (CT) and (99m)Tc-sestamibi (MIBI) scanning were included. 3D-CT reconstruction was obtained using VR-RENDER, which was used to perform 3D virtual neck exploration (3D-VNE).