An assessment of the value of spleen scanning in the staging of Hodgkin's disease
| Autor: | T. P. Wood, G. Farrer-Brown, K. E. Britton, D. H. Keeling, A. M. Jelliffe, P. J. Ell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
| Předmět: |
Hodgkin s
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Splenectomy Spleen Organ Size General Medicine Disease Uptake pattern Hodgkin Disease medicine.anatomical_structure Laparotomy medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radionuclide imaging Radiology Radionuclide Imaging business |
| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Radiology. 48:590-593 |
| ISSN: | 1748-880X 0007-1285 |
| DOI: | 10.1259/0007-1285-48-571-590 |
| Popis: | The value of non-invasive spleen scanning with 51Cr-chromate heat damaged red cells has been assessed in 68 patients with histologically proved Hodgkin's disease in whom pre-treatment laparotomy with splenectomy was performed. The scans were reported independently by two observers. Following this, the uptake pattern of the radioactive tracer and size of organ on the scan were compared with the post-operative weight and pathology of the spleen. From these results it is concluded that this method of spleen scanning is an unreliable technique in staging Hodgkin's disease. |
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