The physiological and morphological characteristics of interneurons caudal to the trigeminal motor nucleus in rats

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Title:	The physiological and morphological characteristics of interneurons caudal to the trigeminal motor nucleus in rats
Authors:	Min, MY;Hsu, PC;Yang, HW
Contributors:	醫學院醫學系生理學科;Chung Shan Med Univ, Dept Life Sci, Taichung 402, Taiwan;China Med Univ, Dept Physiol, Taichung 404, Taiwan
Date:	2003
Issue Date:	2010-09-24 14:55:43 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
Abstract:	The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) and technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (Tc-99m MIBI) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in detecting metastatic cervical lymph nodes (LN) in well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) after total thyroidectomy and radioiodine-131 (I-131) treatments inpatients with elevated serum human thyroglobulin (hTg) levels but negative I-131 whole body scan (WBS). Fifteen DTC patients underwent nearly total thyroidectomy and I-131 treatments with cervical LN metastases were included in this study. All subjects had negative I-131 WBS and elevated hTg levels (hTg greater than or equal to 10 muIU/ml) under thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) stimulation (TSH greater than or equal to 30 muIU/ml). FDG-PET could detect all of the 15 (100%) patients with metastatic cervical LN, but Tc-99m MIBI SPECT revealed lesions in only 9 out of 15 (60%) patients (p value < 0.05). This study demonstrated that FDG-PET is more sensitive than Tc-99m MIBI SPECT in detecting metastatic cervical LN in DTC with elevated serum hTg levels but negative I-131 WBS.
Relation:	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 18(11):2981-2998
Appears in Collections:	[School of Medicine] Journal articles

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