Early supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin's disease. High-dose gallium scanning obviates the need for staging laparotomy.
Experience with 16 sequential patients with Stage IA/IIA supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin's disease who had no evidence of intra-abdominal disease using high-dose gallium and computerized tomography scanning is reported. Subsequent staging laparotomy also was negative in all these patients and did not alter management decisions. It is suggested that high-dose, whole-body gallium scanning and other noninvasive staging procedures give reliable data for therapeutic decisions.
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Joshua
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McLaughlin
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Kronenberg
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D000328:Adult; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes