Unilateral absence of lung perfusion on pulmonary scintigraphy secondary to lung cancer with extensive pleural metastases from lung cancer. |
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Authors: | W J Shih J K Han |
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Affiliation: | Nuclear Medicine Service, Lexington VA Medical Center, KY 40511, USA. |
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Abstract: | A man with a 20-year history of smoking who underwent Tc-99m MAA Pulmonary perfusion imaging, which showed virtually absent perfusion of the right lung and fairly normal perfusion of the left lung. Eighteen days after the study, the patient died; at autopsy poorly differentiated carcinoma of the right lung was confirmed, which included extensive thickened pleura and plaques deposits and compression of the right lung; 200 ml of bloody pleural effusion was also found on the right side. The unilateral absence of lung perfusion on Tc-99m MAA pulmonary scintigraphy might reflect the autopsy findings of the right lung and pleura. |
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