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lung: gallium imaging
- scans at 48 hrs because 50% of normals show activity at 24 hrs
- focal uptake
- multifocal/diffuse uptake
- infection
- TB: active lesion, miliary TB, rapidly progressive TB pneumonia
- PCP: unimpressive symptoms and CXR
- CMV
- inflammation: sarcoid, interstitial lung disease (pneumoconiosis,
IPF, lymphangitic carcinomatosis), radiation pneumonitis
- drugs: bleomycin, amiodarone
- contrast lymphangiography (in 50%)
see: gallium: indications,
uptake with normal chest film
Yong H. Hahn, MD - 27 July 1995
Last updated: 1 October 2013
Copyright © 2013, Charles E. Kahn, Jr.
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