Se presenta el caso de un paciente de 28 años de edad, operado en el Hospital Provincial Clinicoquirúrgico Docente ®Celia Sánchez Manduley» de Manzanillo, por presentar un cuadro peritoneal, en el que se constató una peritonitis fibrinopurulenta difusa, ocasionada por un divertículo de Meckel perf...
La evaluación constituye un componente del proceso docente educativo y como tal, debe tener en las Ciencias Médicas la finalidad de contribuir a la formación integral de la personalidad de los futuros profesionales de la Salud, promoviendo en éstos las capacidades científico-técnicas, la independen...
The current applications of nuclear cardiology techniques are reviewed. Coronary artery disease is the most important and prevalent cardiovascular problem in most developed countries and also in Chile. Different approaches can be employed for its diagnosis and prognosis, as well as for risk stratificatio...
Nuclear Endocrinology was the first clinical use of radionuclides, five decades ago. From those days to the present, nuclear medicine has a definitive role in the diagnosis of a great variety of clinical situations, from the very frequent thyroid nodule to the unusual neuroendocrine tumors, including par...
Nuclear medicine images play an important role in the evaluation of urinary tract pathologies. Radionuclide imaging studies (DMSA scan, DTPA/MAG3 renography, radionuclide cistography) are reviewed, analyzing their indications....
Functional brain imaging with PET and SPECT have a definitive and well established role in the investigation of a variety of conditions such as dementia, epilepsy and drug addiction. With these methods it is possible to detect early rCBF (regional Cerebral Blood Flow) changes seen in dementia (even befor...
The value of PET (Positron Emission Tomography) in colorectal cancer is presented. PET is a novel technique that uses F-18-FDG (fluorodeoxiglucose) to assess glucose metabolism by whole body imaging. It has been demonstrated that malignant cells have both increase of glucose uptake and utilization. In co...
Bone scan, planar or Spect (single photon emission computed tomography) technique is the most frequently nuclear medicine procedures used in the osteoarticular applications. Other procedure, especially Galium 67, is also used. Bone scan is a safe, painless and cost-effective procedure to get information ...
One of the most important causes of residual damage in skeleton is incompletely treated osteoarticular infections (OAI). Goal: to assess the value of emergency three-phase bone scan (3FBS) in the evaluation of OAI. Methods: Thirty-eight children were studied with 54 3FBS. Results: Global analysis: 76% of...
