SINA Nuclear medicine center Applications in ENT:
- Thyroid scan (for evaluation of thyroid nodule, retrosternal goiter, ectopic thyroid, Differentiation of thyroglossal duct cyst from ectopic thyroid)
- Whole body iodine scan(for detection of metastasis from differentiated thyroid carcinoma)
- Parathyroid scan (For detection of parathyroid adenoma)
- Radio-iodine treatment of patients with hyperthyroidism.
- Radio-iodine ablation of patients with thyroid carcinoma(After thyroid surgery)
- Follow up and further treatment of patients with thyroid cancer.
- DMSA V scintigraphy for detection of metastases from Medullary thyroid carcinoma.
- Salivary gland Scintigraphy (Detection of obstructive process, tumors,..)
- Bone scan for diagnosis of active mandibular hyperplasia.
- Bone scan for detection of bone involvement in patients with Otitis.
- Whole body bone scan for detection of metastases in patients with head and neck malignancies.
