99mtechnetium penicillamine: a renal cortical scanning agent.
99mTechnetium penicillamine, a renal cortical imaging agent, can be used to provide a rapid, safe and non-invasive assessment of renal morphology and the renal vascular supply. Since this agent is not excreted significantly during the imaging procedure cortical scans of high quality can be obtained without image deterioration owing to a superimposed collecting system. These scans, which are clearly superior in anatomical detail to earlier scans using 131I hippuran, can be obtained along with the 131I hippuran renogram when the patient comes to the nuclear medicine department. Herein we demonstrate the anatomical detail it is now possible to achieve by presenting the cortical renal scans and accompanying radiograms from 5 patients with different renal pathology.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006869:Hydronephrosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000175:diagnosis; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010396:Penicillamine; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000175:diagnosis; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013667:Technetium
D013667:Technetium; D010396:Penicillamine