Has anyone ever heard of a physician using a Nuclear Medicine Scan to investigate a condition of the eyelid? From what I can find, these scans are used for internal organs and bone structure. A friend of mine had it done for her eyelid. My friend’s english is not good, so it is somewhat difficult for her to completely understand and explain what is happening. Thanks for any info anyone can give.
Was she injected with dye, and then had to sit or lie still while technicians took multiple pictures of her eye or eyelid? Because that’s what a nuclear medicine scan entails.
Or did the doctor just hold a widget up against her closed eye? Is it possible she thinks that this new gadget for testing for glaucoma through the eyelid was actually a nuclear medicine scan?
My brother is a Nuclear Medicine Technician. According to him:
He only deals with eyelids (or eyes) in the following manner:
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Dacryoscintigraphy, which deals with the flow of tears
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White Blood Cell scan for infection, but he says this scan would be VERY rare.
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Eye Orbit scan for someone with a fake eyeball, which looks for eye vascularity in certain eye implants.
According to him, some nuclear medicine departments also employ machines that havimg nothing to do with nuclear medicine and dual train their nuclear med techs to use them, such as a Dexascan, which scans for bone density.
So, according to him, it COULD be possible that she had a non-nuclear medicine procedure done in the nuclear medicine department.
I had a nuclear scan around 15 years ago prior to a dacryocystorhinostomy. They put technetium 99 drops in my eyes and then took scintillographic images of the resulting flow through the ducts.