Simultaneous gallium-67 citrate and technetium-99m sestamibi SPET in a case of myocardial lymphoma: comparison with echocardiography before and after chemotherapy.
A patient with diffuse large cell lymphoma involving the interventricular septum and the inferior ventricular wall was imaged with a simultaneous dual-isotope single-photon emission tomography (SPET) acquisition technique, using the radiotracers technetium-99m hexakis 2-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (sestamibi) and gallium-67 citrate, in conjunction with echocardiography, prior to and following the first course of chemotherapy. Simultaneous acquisition--with the advantage of displaying corresponding sets of SPET slices without any need for position correction--, supplemented by echocardiography, increased the accuracy of evaluation of the extent of disease and response to treatment.
Kostakoglu
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Nuclear Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021.
Roistacher
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Kalaigian
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Larson
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Abdel-Dayem
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D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002951:Citrates; D019343:Citric Acid; D004452:Echocardiography; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*
D002951:Citrates; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D019343:Citric Acid; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi