Thallium-201 SPECT depicts radiologically occult lung cancer. |
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| Authors: | N Tonami K Yokoyama J Taki K Hisada Y Watanabe T Takashima A Nonomura |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | A case of radiologically occult lung cancer is presented in which 201TI SPECT of the chest clearly delineated the involved area. A 66-yr-old man underwent chest screening examinations for asymptomatic smokers and presented a positive sputum cytology for lung cancer. Conventional chest x-ray, tomography of computed radiography, and a CT scan failed to locate the lesion in the lung. Thallium-201 SPECT, however, was successful in depicting the area of the involvement. |
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