The spleen-lung interface as diagnostic information.
Left anterior, lateral, and posterior views on 50 consecutive RES-lung scams were examined. Normal patients had continuity of activity between the left lung and the spleen on all three views. Patients with subphrenic abscess or large left pleural effusions showed no continuity between lung and spleen activity on any view, while other abnormalities, most commonly cardiomegaly, accounted for lack of lung-spleen continuity on the anterior view only. It is suggested that in all combined RES-lung studies, the left side be examined as well as the right for abnormalities adjacent to the left diaphragm.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung; D008875:Middle Aged; D012157:Mononuclear Phagocyte System; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013154:Spleen