Thallium-201 SPECT depicts radiologically occult lung cancer.
A case of radiologically occult lung cancer is presented in which 201TI SPECT of the chest clearly delineated the involved area. A 66-yr-old man underwent chest screening examinations for asymptomatic smokers and presented a positive sputum cytology for lung cancer. Conventional chest x-ray, tomography of computed radiography, and a CT scan failed to locate the lesion in the lung. Thallium-201 SPECT, however, was successful in depicting the area of the involvement.
Tonami
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yokoyama
K
K
Taki
J
J
Hisada
K
K
Watanabe
Y
Y
Takashima
T
T
Nonomura
A
A
D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes