Ectopic parathyroid adenoma on sternocleidomastoid muscle: a case report.

A 54-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with a left neck mass. Enhanced CT and ultrasound examinations revealed a lesion in the left sternocleidomastoid muscle. The patient undergone right thyroid lobe resection 8 years ago.

[Predictive factors for bone metastases of prostate cancer].

Objective: To investigate the correlation between a diverse of clinical factors and bone metastases of prostate cancer.

Methods: The clinical data of 80 patients with prostate cancer were collected and analyzed. The correlations of age, alkaline phosphotase (ALP), prostate specific antigen (PSA), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), Gleason score, and expressions of androgen receptor (AR) and Ki-67 with bone metastases were analyzed by one-way ANOVA and Logistic regression analysis.

In vivo mouse ^{99m}Tc SPECT scans with bioluminescence imaging validation.

The aim of this in vivo study was to evaluate the feasibility of ^{99m}Tc-labeled cartilage link protein (CLP) probe for the single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) of lung cancer. Xenograft mouse model were established from a luciferase expressing cell line derived from a human lung cancer. Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) was carried out prior to ^{99m}Tc-CLP and ^{99m}Tc-methoxyisobutyl isonitrile (MIBI) SPECT scans.