Thallium-201 SPECT depicts radiologically occult lung cancer.

Tonami, N; Yokoyama, K; Taki, J; Hisada, K; Watanabe, Y; Takashima, T; Nonomura, A · J Nucl Med · 1991

case_report · Level V

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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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