Scintigraphic detection of splenosis: superiority of tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy.
We used scintigraphy with sulphur colloid and heat-damaged red cells to detect splenosis after splenectomy in 19 patients 7 to 69 months after injury. We compared planar and tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy using heat-damaged red cells with subtracted planar colloid scintigraphy, and showed that the most sensitive method was tomographic selective splenic scintigraphy. The incidence of splenosis was 58% with this method, the other techniques detecting abnormalities in 21% and 26% of the patients.
Gunes
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Uludag University Hospital, Bursa, Turkey.
Yilmazlar
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Sarikaya
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Akbunar
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Irgil
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D000328:Adult; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013154:Spleen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000293:injuries; D013156:Splenectomy; D017890:Splenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon