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. 1994 Feb;49(2):115-7.
doi: 10.1016/s0009-9260(05)83452-x.

Scintigraphic detection of splenosis: superiority of tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy

I Gunes  1 , T Yilmazlar, I Sarikaya, T Akbunar, C Irgil
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Scintigraphic detection of splenosis: superiority of tomographic selective spleen scintigraphy

I Gunes et al. Clin Radiol. 1994 Feb.

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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