Francesca Chessa
University of Sassari
62 Papers
345 Citations
Francesca Chessa is an academic researcher from University of Sassari. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Scintigraphy. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 37 publications.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Bone mass loss and vitamin D metabolism impairment in HIV patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy.
Giordano Madeddu,Angela Spanu,P. Solinas,G.M. Calia,C Lovigu,Francesca Chessa,M Mannazzu,Antonio Falchi,Maria Stella Mura,Giuseppe Madeddu +9 more
TL;DR: HAART could be associated with osteopenia, even osteoporosis, and it could aggravate the loss in bone mass due to HIV infection itself, as well as directly affect bone remodelling and/or may indirectly affect vitamin D metabolism.
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The Usefulness of Neck Pinhole SPECT as a Complementary Tool to Planar Scintigraphy in Primary and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism
Angela Spanu,Antonio Falchi,Alessandra Manca,Pietro Marongiu,Antonio Cossu,Nicola Pisu,Francesca Chessa,Susanna Nuvoli,Giuseppe Madeddu +8 more
TL;DR: P-SPECT appears a highly sensitive, high-resolution method and its use as a preoperative complementary tool to neck planar scintigraphy, selectively in pHPT patients but extensively in sHPT patients is suggested.
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99mTc-tetrofosmin SPET in the detection of both primary breast cancer and axillary lymph node metastasis
Angela Spanu,G Dettori,Susanna Nuvoli,Alberto Porcu,Antonio Falchi,P Cottu,M.E. Solinas,Antonio Mario Scanu,Francesca Chessa,Giuseppe Madeddu +9 more
TL;DR: 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPET appears to be a reliable method for the detection of both primary breast cancer and axillary lymph node metastasis, and its diagnostic accuracy exceeds that of 99mTC-TetroFosmin planar scintimammography.
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Scintimammography with dedicated breast camera in unifocal and multifocal/multicentric primary breast cancer detection: A comparative study with SPECT
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared planar scintimammography (SM) with a high-resolution dedicated breast camera (DBC) compared to SPECT in unifocal and multifocal/multicentric primary breast cancer (BC) detection.
The role of planar scintimammography with high-resolution dedicated breast camera in the diagnosis of primary breast cancer.
Angela Spanu,Francesca Chessa,Giovanni Battista Meloni,Daniela Sanna,P Cottu,Alessandra Manca,Susanna Nuvoli,Giuseppe Madeddu +7 more
TL;DR: DBC planar SM seems a highly sensitive diagnostic tool in the detection of BC, even when small in size, and in the assessment of multifocal disease, and a wider employment of this procedure is suggested, especially in indeterminate or inconclusive mammographic findings to improve sensitivity and specificity of Mx.
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