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Provedor de dados: | 52
País: | Brazil
Título: | Qualitative and quantitative lymphoscintigraphy in the evaluation of lower limbs lymphedema
Autores: | Dalia,Roberta Maria; Martins,Gláucia Ribeiro P.; Barbosa,Rodolfo; Lima,Carla Flávia de; Siqueira,Cristiano Ferrari.
Data: | 2005-10-01
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Lymphedema; Lymphoscintigraphy; Lower limbs; Dextran; Radiopharmaceutical.
Resumo: | The purpose of this study was to prove the efficiency of qualitative and quantitative lymphoscintigraphy in the diagnosis of the lower extremity lymphedema. Seventy-seven patients had been studied, most of then (85.7%) were female. Patients’ ages ranged from 18 to 82 years. All patients underwent a bilateral lymphoscintigraphy. Images were recorded with a dual-detector instrument in the whole-body scanning mode. Feet and inguinal static views were acquired within 15 minutes and three hours after radiopharmaceutical injection. Two nuclear doctors evaluated the lymphoscintigrams qualitatively. Quantitative studies of the radiopharmaceutical absorption and the lymph node chain uptake were also obtained. Of the 154 evaluated members, 21.44% (n = 33) were classified as normal, 61.68% (n = 95) as mildly altered and 16.88% (n = 26) much altered. Quantitation of lymphatic chain uptake may be a more sensitive approach to the diagnosis of lymphatic impairment than the qualitative analysis.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132005000700023
Editor: | Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-89132005000700023
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology  v.48 n.spe2 2005
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess