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A case of unexpected gallium-67 uptake by sternum in non-hodgkin’s lymphoma with pleuritis

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A case of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma with pleural effusion was presented. Pleural effusion is not a common manifestation of this disease and67Ga-citrate scintigraphy gave the clue for the diagnosis.

The possibility of malignant lymphoma should be considered in cases with pleural effusion, and we showed that67Ga-citrate scintigraphy can be useful in a case with pleural effusion of undetermined cause.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe Tamatsu Hospital, Japan

    Hitoya Ohta, Masaki Ishii & Tetsuji Sakashita

  2. Kobe General Hospital, Japan

    Hironobu Iwasaki, Takeshi Shiraishi & Katsuji Ikekubo

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Japan

    Keigo Endo & Junji Konishi

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Ohta, H., Ishii, M., Sakashita, T. et al. A case of unexpected gallium-67 uptake by sternum in non-hodgkin’s lymphoma with pleuritis. Ann Nucl Med 2, 81–83 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03164949

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