1. Activities, procedures and doses in pediatric patients due to radiopharmaceuticals
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Silvia Maria Velasques de Oliveira, Edson Mendes Boasquevisque, Felipe Sima dos Santos, and Rodrigo Biancardi
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pediatrics ,oncology ,dosimetry ,radiopharmaceuticals ,nuclear medicine ,radiation protection ,Biotechnology ,TP248.13-248.65 - Abstract
An investigation performed between 2003 and 2005 in sixteen selected public and private institutions in Northeast, Southeast and South geographical regions of Brazil evaluated average organ doses and effective doses in 2,411 pediatric patients due to diagnostic procedures with radiopharmaceuticals. For 1 year, effective doses were greater than literature. For 5 years, differences were noticed between present work and literature for bone scintigraphy, thyroid scintigraphy and 67Ga citrate scintigraphy. These differences may be attributed to the uncertainties in internal dose calculations. High absorved doses in bone surfaces of children due to 67Ga citrate and bone scintigraphy should be evaluated accordingly. Current protocols used recommend standardized mean activities per mean weight for all ages. However, it was observed that the activities were not standardized and were higher for children with younger ages. Future studies are needed for optimising activities of radiopharmaceuticals to these patients in the country.Foi realizado no Brasil, no período 2003-2005, um estudo sobre doses absorvidas em órgãos e doses efetivas devido ao uso de radiofármacos em pacientes pediátricos. Foram estudadas 2.411 crianças e adolescentes menores de 18 anos. Foi observado que as atividades usadas não foram padronizadas, sendo maiores para crianças de menor idade, podendo ser otimizadas conforme apropriado. Para 1 ano, as doses efetivas foram maiores do que as publicadas na literatura e para 5 anos, foram observadas diferenças para cintilografias ósseas, cintilografias da tireóide, e pesquisas de corpo inteiro com citrato de 67G. Deve ser avaliado se doses absorvidas em órgãos, especialmente para superfície óssea devido a cintilografias ósseas com 99mTc MDP e pesquisa de corpo inteiro com citrato de 67Ga podem acarretar risco radiológico adicional aos pacientes, considerando-se as peculiaridades de seu estado clínico.
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- 2008
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