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A 52-year-old female patient was routinely referred for an indium-111 white-cell scan due to elevated white blood cell count after nitral-valve replacement. A scan with technetium-99m tin colloid was also performed, and the resulting subtraction image showed two areas of whitecell accumulation within the spleen which were presumed to be abscesses. This was confirmed at postmortem examination.
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O'Doherty, M.J., Page, C. & Croft, D. 111In-Leukocyte imaging: Intrasplenic abscesses. Eur J Nucl Med 11, 141–142 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265049
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265049