PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - James K. O'Donnell
AU  - Raymundo T. Go
AU  - Edward M. Cordasco
AU  - David H. Feiglin
AU  - Joseph A. Golish
AU  - Atul C. Mehta
AU  - Muzaffar Ahmad
AU  - William J. Maclntyre
TI  - Improved evaluation of pulmonary disease with gallium-67 emission tomography
DP  - 1985 Dec 21
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 525--531
VI  - 52
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/4/525.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/4/525.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1985 Dec 21; 52
AB  - Gallium-67 scintigraphy is helpful in the noninvasive evaluation of neoplastic and inflammatory pulmonary diseases. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) provides tomographic reconstructions of radioisotope distribution in the body. The addition of SPECT to gallium-67 scanning in more than 180 patients demonstrated an improvement in the already high sensitivity for the presence and extent of bronchogenic carcinoma, sarcoidosis, infection, and interstitial disease. Specificity is also improving as characteristic tomographic patterns of abnormal uptake in various conditions are becoming evident.