Unusual Cases in Nuclear Medicine
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2023) | Viewed by 2195
Special Issue Editor
2. Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital Tenon AP-HP, Paris, France
Interests: nuclear medicine; PET; SPECT; unusual case; pitfall
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Functional imaging methods of Nuclear Medicine (i.e. conventional scintigraphy and positron emission tomography) find application across wide spectrum of medical specialties, play a documented role in diagnostic and therapeutic management of a wide spectrum of oncological and non-oncological diseases, and the development is still progressing.
In diagnostic Nuclear Medicine, the typical patterns have been identified for pathologies representing the documented indications for individual radiopharmaceuticals. At the same time, every patient´s case is unique. But which cases are unusual? In general, unusual cases are those that provide with innovative information and those that may potentially generate new research questions.
In Nuclear Medicine, beyond the documentation of use of new radiopharmaceutical in early phase of clinical development, the unusual cases include unusual disease or presentation of disease, unusual interaction of radiopharmaceutical used with current medication or with other extrinsic factor(s), unusual biodistribution of radiopharmaceutical used, unusual incidental finding(s) or imaging pitfall(s) or other phenomenon that is not covered yet by current knowledge.
Some unusual cases are obvious on the first sight; however, the identification of the majority of them requires the thorough knowledge of typical patterns and common variations of given pathology studied by given radiopharmaceutical.
Therefore, drawing the attention to unusual cases in Nuclear Medicine and making them available for general scientific discussion importantly contributes to increase of general knowledge and may open the way to innovative directions in clinical research.
The primary goal of this Special Issue devoted to Unusual Cases in Nuclear Medicine is to communicate such unusual cases and to discuss each of them in the context of current knowledge, all that in order to continuously improve our daily practice.
Dr. Soňa Balogová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- positron emission tomography
- conventional scintigraphy
- unusual case
- pitfall
