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Unusual bone marrow visualization with 99mTc-damaged erythrocytes

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A visualization of the bone marrow beside that of the spleen was obtained with 99mTc-labeled N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) damaged erythrocytes in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. This phenomenon could be produced both with autologous and homologous red cells. The patient's NEM-damaged erythrocytes given to a healthy patient did not produce a visualization of the marrow. Such an observation was not present in a series of healthy persons and patients with different disorders to whom labeled and damaged erythrocytes were administered, and has not been reported in the literature so far.

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  1. Medical Faculty, Institue of Pathophysiology and Nuclear Medicine, Skopje, Yugoslavia

    Vera Dolgova-Korubin & Nina Simova

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  1. Vera Dolgova-Korubin
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Dolgova-Korubin, V., Simova, N. Unusual bone marrow visualization with 99mTc-damaged erythrocytes. Eur J Nucl Med 7, 240–241 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00256473

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