Abstract
Most pyogenic liver abscesses appear to be ‘not’ in a 67Ga-citrate study; rarely, a ‘warm’ or ‘cold’ area may also be seen. We present a patient with a pyogenic liver abscess that had both ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ areas in the 67Ga-citrate study. This striking finding is probably related to the different stages of evolution of the abscess.
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Shih, WJ., Domstad, P.A. & DeLand, F.H. ‘Hot’ and ‘cold’ lesions detected by gallium-67 scintigraphy in a pyogenic liver abscess. Eur J Nucl Med 10, 123–124 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00252718
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00252718