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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 68 |
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Salivary Gland Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Salivary Gland Dysfunction
Sim Sai Tin1, Viroj Wiwanitkit2
1 Medical Centre, Shantou, China
2 Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China
| Date of Web Publication | 2-Feb-2015 |
Correspondence Address:
Sim Sai Tin
Medical Centre, Shantou
China
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DOI: 10.4103/1450-1147.150562 PMID: 25709552 
How to cite this article:
Tin SS, Wiwanitkit V. Salivary Gland Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Salivary Gland Dysfunction. World J Nucl Med 2015;14:68 |
How to cite this URL:
Tin SS, Wiwanitkit V. Salivary Gland Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Salivary Gland Dysfunction. World J Nucl Med [serial online] 2015 [cited 2020 Jul 8];14:68. Available from: http://www.wjnm.org/text.asp?2015/14/1/68/150562 |
Dear Editor,
The report on "Salivary Gland Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Salivary Gland Dysfunction" is very interesting. [1] Senthilkumar and Sathasivasubramanian concluded that "there was a significant correlation between salivary flow rate and the scintigraphic uptake and excretory ratio." [1] In fact, there is a previous similar report confirmed the good diagnostic protery of salivary gland scintigraphy. [2] Nevertheless, the false positive of the technique can be expected. [3] Salanci and Ergün noted that "bilateral radioactivity absence is observed usually due to drugs or radiopharmaceutical storage conditions." [3] In case of existed salivary tumor, Yoshikai et al. noted that "adenoid cystic carcinomas and pleomorphic adenomas were the principal sources of false negative and false positive results, respectively." [4]
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| 1. | Senthilkumar B, Sathasivasubramanian S. The role of salivary gland scintigraphy in the evaluation of salivary gland dysfunction in uncontrolled type II diabetic patients. World J Nucl Med 2013;12:94-100.  [ PUBMED]  |
| 2. | Raza H, Khan AU, Hameed A, Khan A. Quantitative evaluation of salivary gland dysfunction after radioiodine therapy using salivary gland scintigraphy. Nucl Med Commun 2006;27:495-9. |
| 3. | Salanci BV, Ergün EL. Patterns of salivary gland uptake in I-131 MIBG scintigraphy. Rev Esp Med Nucl 2006;25:198-201. |
| 4. | Yoshikai T, Ishimaru J, Satoh T, Inokuchi A, Kudo S. The limitations of gallium scintigraphy in the differentiation between benign and malignant salivary gland mass lesions. Nucl Med Commun 2003;24:657-62. |
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