RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Improved evaluation of pulmonary disease with gallium-67 emission tomography
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 525
OP 531
VO 52
IS 4
A1 O'Donnell, James K.
A1 Go, Raymundo T.
A1 Cordasco, Edward M.
A1 Feiglin, David H.
A1 Golish, Joseph A.
A1 Mehta, Atul C.
A1 Ahmad, Muzaffar
A1 Maclntyre, William J.
YR 1985
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/4/525.abstract
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.