TY - JOUR T1 - Improved evaluation of pulmonary disease with gallium-67 emission tomography JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 525 LP - 531 VL - 52 IS - 4 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 Y1 - 1985/12/21 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/4/525.abstract N2 - 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. ER -