Gallium scintigraphy in bone infarction. Correlation with bone imaging.
The appearance of gallium-67 images in bone infarction was studied in nine patients with sickle cell disease and correlated with the bone scan findings. Gallium uptake in acute infarction was decreased or absent with a variable bone scan uptake, and normal in healing infarcts, which showed increased uptake on bone scan. The significance of these findings is discussed.
D000328:Adult; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000098:blood supply*; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012805:Sickle Cell Trait / Q000150:complications; D013977:Tibia / Q000098:blood supply
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes