title: False-positive granulocyte scintigraphy in a patient with acute leukemia.
abstract: This study describes a 12-year-old patient who was hospitalized because of arthritislike symptoms. A scintigraphy performed with in vivo labelled granulocytes revealed, in addition to a few foci, an abnormal intravasal persistence of the labelled cells. An acute leukemia was found that was restricted to the bone marrow.
authors.affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsklinikum Steglitz, Abteilung für Nuklearmedizin.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Holl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wudel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koppenhagen
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Fegeler
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006098:Granulocytes; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D007938:Leukemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes