Scintigraphic detection of splenosis: Superiority of tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy

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1993-07-19

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Blackwell Science Ltd

Abstract

We used scintigraphy with sulphur colloid and heat-damaged red cells to detect splenosis after splenectomy in 19 patients 7 to 69 months after injury. We compared planar and tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy using heat-damaged red cells with subtracted planar colloid scintigraphy, and showed that the most sensitive method was tomographic selective splenic scintigraphy. The incidence of splenosis was 58% with this method, the other techniques detecting abnormalities in 21% and 26% of the patients.

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Concise communication, Splenic function, Splenectomy, Trauma, Management, Rupture, Adults, Scan

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Güneş, I. vd. (1993). ''Scintigraphic detection of splenosis: Superiority of tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy''. Clinical Radiology, 49(2), 115-117.