False-positive granulocyte scintigraphy in a patient with acute leukemia

✍ Scribed by G. Holl; E. Wudel; K. Koppenhagen; U. Fegeler

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 102 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6997
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00251788

✦ Synopsis

This study describes a 12-year-old patient who was hospitalized because of arthritislike symptoms. A scintigraphy performed with in vivo labelled granulocytes revealed, in addition to a few foci, an abnormal intravasal persistence of the labelled cells. An acute leukemia was found that was restricted to the bone marrow.