La Gammagrafía como Técnica de Diagnóstico en Medicina Nuclear

Abstract

The work investigation is done to the objective of studying the gammagraphics images of the patients to suffer of Cancer and go to Nuclear Medicine Center at Hospital Carlos Andrade Marín — Quito, for this is studied the gammacamera, and its operation, so is taken notes of the images captivated in the period February 2005 - February 2006 and with they are done a descriptive statistic analysis and imply to include the test of hypothesis. The results obtain get in the statistics analysis shows the most people to go to Nuclear Medicine Service are woman (56.5%) and almost nothing men (43.5%). The average age between the notes of 278 patients is (64.7 + 12.29) years. So revealed the types of cancer more commons:

Breast cancer 50.4%; Prostate cancer 37.8%; Lung cancer 5.8%; another cancer 6%. Finally, so the statistic analysis as the test of hypothesis to showed the osseous metastasis are the diagnostic more common between the patients

of Nuclear Medicine Service HCAM.