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ArticleNuclear medicine and molecular imaging2021

Does the Incremental Value of

Dorra Ben-Sellem, Naima Ben-Rejeb

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Article in Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dorra Ben-SellemUniversité de Tunis El Manar, Faculté de Médecine de Tunis, Laboratoire de Recherche en Biophysique Et Technologies Médicales (LRBTM) ISTMT, Institut Salah AZAIEZ: Service de Médecine Nucléaire, 1006 Tunis, Tunisia.
Naima Ben-RejebUniversité de Tunis El Manar, Laboratoire de Recherche en Biophysique Et Technologies Médicales (LRBTM), Institut Supérieur Des Technologies Médicales de Tunis (ISTMT), 1006 Tunis, Tunisia.
Tunis El Manar University · TNTunis University · TN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposePlanar scintigraphy with

methodsWe retrospectively evaluated the added value of 56 SPECT/CT performed in 40 children in terms of better characterization of the lesion and its locoregional extension, better lymph node staging, detection of new lesions, and elimination of false positives by a paired comparison between the planar images and the SPECT/CT ones. Then, we calculated the percentage contribution of the additional radiation of the CT in this hybrid imagery.

resultsIn 88% (49 out of 56) of the examinations, SPECT/CT provided additional information, which was crucial in 20% of the cases. It allowed a better characterization of the lesion and its locoregional extension in 44 cases, a better lymph node staging in 28 cases, the detection of 33 new lesions, and the elimination of 9 false positives. The CT effective dose was significantly lower than the SPECT one. The average additional radiation exposure due to CT was 12% (4-23%).

conclusion

Indexed as

123I-mIBG scintigraphyNeuroblastomaPediatricsSPECT/CT

Identifiers

PMID34422127
PMCPMC8322371
OpenAlexW3179716895

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