Selective approach to radionuclide-guided sentinel lymph node biopsy in high-risk ductal carcinoma in situ of the breastSharjeel Usmani
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hussain Makki Al Jumma Centre for Specialized Surgery, Khaitan, Kuwait
Nucl Med Commun 32:1084-7. 2011
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of SLN biopsy and the incidence of SLN metastases in selected patients with high-risk DCIS, who are at highest risk for being upstaged to invasive carcinoma...
- Incremental diagnostic value and impact on patient management of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy with indium-111-pentetreotide in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Sharjeel Usmani
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hussain Makki Al Jumma Center for Specialized Surgery, Ministry of Health, Khaitan, Kuwait
Med Princ Pract 20:356-61. 2011
..To evaluate the efficacy of somatostatin analog scintigraphy with indium-111-pentetreotide and its overall impact on management in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NET)...
- Extensive Visceral Calcification Demonstrated on Tc-99m MDP Bone Scan in Patient with Sphenoidal Sinus Carcinoma and Hypercalcaemia of Malignancy: A Bad Prognostic Sign
S Usmani
Hussain Makki Al Jumma Centre for Specialized Surgery HMJCSS, Kuwait Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hussain Makki Al Jumma Centre for Specialized Surgery, PO Box 1488, 83001 Khaitan Kuwait, Tel 0096597613437, Email
Gulf J Oncolog 1:61-4. 2011
..In the absence of extensive skeletal metastases, bone scan help confirm humoral nature of hypercalcaeimia. Keywords: Bone scan, visceral calcification, Humoral hypercalcemia, Sheniodal Sinus carcinoma...
- Scintimammography in conjunction with ultrasonography for local breast cancer recurrence in post-mastectomy breast
S Usmani
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hussain Makki Al Jumma Centre for Specialized Surgery HMJCSS, Khaitan, Kuwait
Br J Radiol 83:934-9. 2010
..The high NPV of the two studies in combination implies a potential use of this approach to exclude recurrent disease in patients with a low initial index of suspicion and/or when histology is indeterminate...
- Evaluation of the gamma probe guided sentinel lymph node biopsy and the blue dye technique in the management of breast cancer
Sharjeel Usmani
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hussain Makki Al Jumma Centre for Specialized Surgery, 83001 Khaitan, Kuwait
Hell J Nucl Med 13:30-4. 2010
..We found a high negative predictive value for SLNB and the recurrence rate in these negative SLNB was comparable to the ALND...
- Minimally invasive radionuclide-guided parathyroidectomy using 99mTc-sestamibi in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: a single-institution experience
Sharjeel Usmani
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hussain Makki Al Jumma Center for Specialized Surgery HMJCSS, Khaitan, Kuwait
Med Princ Pract 18:373-7. 2009
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- Prediction of cardiac events in patients having left bundle-branch block with/without chest pain using dipyridamole technetium-99m-sestamibi myocardial perfusion imaging
Sharjeel Usmani
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Karachi, Pakistan
Med Princ Pract 18:310-6. 2009
..To determine the prognostic value of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy with dipyridamole stress in patients with preexisting left bundle-branch block (LBBB) with or without chest pain...
- Tc-99m-methoxy isobutyl isonitrile scintimammography: imaging postexcision biopsy for residual and multifocal breast tumor
Sharjeel Usmani
Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Karachi, Pakistan
Nucl Med Commun 29:826-9. 2008
..Scintimammography has been proposed because it is not affected by these morphological changes and can potentially be used in patients after excision biopsy to assess any residual tumor, other foci of disease (multifocal disease)...
- Chest wall recurrence of breast cancer demonstrated on 99mTc-MIBI scintimammography
Sharjeel Usmani
Nuclear Medicine Department, Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine KIRAN, Pakistan
Nucl Med Commun 28:842-6. 2007
..MRI has been used successfully but it remains an expensive modality and may not be readily available. Scintimammography is an alternative method which has the advantage of not being affected by post-operative morphological changes...
- Role of 99mTc-MIBI scintimammography and X-ray mammography in the diagnosis of locoregional recurrence of breast cancer
Sharjeel Usmani
Nuclear Medicine Department, Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Karachi
J Pak Med Assoc 57:172-5. 2007
..To evaluate the utility of Tc- MIBI scintimammography in the loco-regional recurrence of breast cancer and its comparison with mammography...
- Assessment of viable myocardium by nitrate augmented 99mTc MIBI myocardial perfusion imaging
Kashif Niyaz
Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Karachi
J Pak Med Assoc 57:83-7. 2007
..To determine the efficacy of 99mTcMIBI with nitrate administration for the detection of viable myocardium in patients with MI...
