Scintigraphy with gallium-67 citrate in staging of soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremity.
We performed a retrospective study of sixty patients who had a soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity to determine the usefulness of scintigraphy with gallium-67 citrate as a staging modality. Abnormal activity of the gallium was present in forty-one of forty-eight sites in which there was macroscopic primary tumor. In six of the forty-eight patients, the imaging demonstrated non-pulmonary metastases that had not been detected by any other staging studies. Scintigraphy with gallium-67 citrate should be employed routinely for staging of soft-tissue sarcomas because of its utility in detecting non-pulmonary metastases that are not otherwise detected on routine staging studies.
Finn
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Simon
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Martin
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Darakjian
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001132:Arm; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes