Incidental Finding of Tl-201 Accumulation in an Empyema
Autor: | Arif Engin Demirçali, Tarik Baŝoglu, Murathan Sahin, Irem Bernay |
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Přispěvatelé: | Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi |
Rok vydání: | 1996 |
Předmět: |
Male
Abdominal pain Systemic disease medicine.medical_specialty Eye disease Scintigraphy medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radionuclide Imaging Empyema Pleural Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Behcet Syndrome Liver Neoplasms Respiratory disease General Medicine Middle Aged respiratory system medicine.disease Empyema respiratory tract diseases Surgery Thallium Radioisotopes medicine.anatomical_structure Abdominal ultrasonography Radiology medicine.symptom business |
Zdroj: | Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 21:157 |
ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
Popis: | PubMed: 8697695 A 47-year-old man with Behcet disease was hospitalized because of abdominal pain. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a 3 cm x 3 cm hepatic mass and chest x-ray showed an empyema of the right lung. The patient was placed in a protocol for Tl-201 uptake in hepatic tumors. Surprisingly, Tl-201 accumulation was seen in the inferior lobe of the right lung within the empyema. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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