Detection of miliary tuberculosis by Ga-67 scintigraphy.
Two patients are presented in whom pulmonary accumulation of Ga-67 led to an early diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis and its prompt treatment. Their chest radiographs were unremarkable and thus noncontributory to the diagnostic process.
Grieff
M
M
Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Lisbona
R
R
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes