Nuclear Medicine in Radiological Diagnosis

by Peters; A. Michael

• ISBN13: 9781899066506
• ISBN10: 1899066500
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-05
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Nuclear medicine continues to expand as an important medical imaging specialty both in clinical service and as a tool for non-invasive clinical research. Nuclear Medicine in Radiological Diagnosis aims to clarify its role in clinical service and to achieve this through a demonstration of its complementary role in the wider world of clinical imaging based on ionising and non-ionising signals. Although the editor's aim for this book is to illustrate nuclear medicine as a radiological discipline and illustrate its value alongside complementary imaging, it is also intended as a text for nuclear medicine trainees to enable them to appreciate the contribution that radiology is able to make to the practice of first class nuclear medicine. Nuclear Medicine in Radiological Diagnosis is an attempt to reflect the interdependence of the two disciplines, nuclear medicine and radiology. To achieve this aim, authors have been selected by Professor Michael Peters, wherever possible, for their dual expertise. Of course, and as nuclear medicine physicians are quick to point out, there is more to the specialty than imaging -- radionuclide therapy and in vitro studies for example -- so many chapters have been written by dedicated nuclear medicine specialists. Other areas, many in endocrinology and tumour imaging, are almost exclusively the domain of specialist nuclear medicine departments and are covered by nuclear medicine specialists. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vi
Preface	p. xi
Muscoluskeletal system
Back pain	p. 3
Imaging of malignant disorders of bone	p. 37
The painful prosthetic joint	p. 55
Infection in the peripheral skeleton	p. 65
Unexplained pain following trauma in the peripheral skeleton	p. 79
Metabolic bone disease	p. 87
Painful and/or swollen joint	p. 101
Pediatric bone scanning	p. 115
Skeletal trauma	p. 139
Nephrourology
Measuring renal function	p. 163
Urinary dilatation and obstruction in the adult	p. 181
Imaging children born with an abnormal urinary tract	p. 189
Urinary tract infection in children	p. 203
Clinicians' requirements of radiology when investigating patients with hypertension	p. 215
Hypertension and suspected renovascular disease	p. 225
Assessment in renal transplantation	p. 239
Imaging of acute renal failure	p. 251
Gastrointestinal system
Evaluation of the liver and biliary tree	p. 263
Radionuclide imaging in gastrointestinal bleeding	p. 279
Radiological investigation of inflammatory bowel disease	p. 291
Gastrointestinal tract	p. 305
Cardiology
What the cardiologist requires of nuclear medicine	p. 317
Evaluation of the patient with chest pain: Rationale for the use of radionuclide imaging	p. 331
Imaging the heart after myocardial infarction	p. 343
Imaging the heart in patients with cardiac failure	p. 363
Imaging techniques in determinnig myocardial viability and hibernation	p. 379
Clinical application of radionuclide imaging in cardiomyopathies and valvular diseases	p. 389
Clinical value of measuring right ventricular function	p. 401
Neurology
Nuclear medicine techniques in the investigation of dementia	p. 411
Functional imaging in brain tumours	p. 427
Nuclear medicine in the psychoses	p. 437
Functional imaging of movement disorders	p. 449
Epilepsy and related seizure disorders	p. 467
The role of SPECT in stroke	p. 479
Haematology
Nuclear medicine in myeloproliferative disease	p. 493
Radioisotope investigation of chronic anaemia	p. 497
Investigating thrombocytopenia	p. 501
The spleen	p. 509
Positron emission tomography in haematology	p. 519
Lymphoproliferative disorders	p. 531
The swollen limb	p. 547
The lung
Imaging the legs in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism	p. 561
Ventilation-perfusion imaging for a venous thrombo-embolism: A changing role in the diagnostic algorithm	p. 571
Clinical role of ventilation-perfusion scanning in non-embolic lung disease	p. 589
Role of gallium scanning in the management of chronic lung disease	p. 605
PET imaging in lung cancer	p. 617
Clinical applications of DTPA aerosol clearance	p. 633
Lung scanning in paediatrics	p. 641
Endocrinology
Approach to the patient with a thyroid nodule	p. 651
Nuclear medicine in the management of the patient with abnormal thyroid function	p. 659
Management of goitre	p. 669
Imaging the parathyroids	p. 681
Imaging the adrenal cortex	p. 695
Infection/inflammation
Undiagnosed fever	p. 703
AIDS, infection and nuclear medicine	p. 715
Imaging intra-abdominal sepsis	p. 727
Oncology
Radioimmunoscintigraphy	p. 737
Finding phaeochromocytoma	p. 751
Clinical applications of PET in oncology	p. 761
Imaging the breast	p. 779
Management of thyroid cancer	p. 791
Index	p. 803
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