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- Title
Perfusion lung scan: an aid in detection of lymphangitic carcinomatosis.
- Authors
Bates, Susan E.; Tranum, Bill L.; Bates, S E; Tranum, B L
- Abstract
Lymphangitic carcinomatosis is usually a late manifestation of metastatic disease. The patient usually presents with cough or dyspnea, and the chest radiograph is often nondiagnostic. Two patients are presented who developed symptoms while on adjuvant chemotherapy. Both had abnormal perfusion lung scans. One had matching ventilation defects; the other a normal ventilation study. Biopsy revealed metastatic carcinoma; in one case tumor was seen in both the pulmonary lymphatics and arterioles; in technique which can speed diagnosis and institution of therapy in lymphangitic carcinomatosis.
- Subjects
CANCER chemotherapy; ALBUMINS; BIOPSY; LUNGS; TECHNETIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; METASTASIS; CANCER; LYMPHATIC diseases; SERUM albumin; RADIONUCLIDE imaging; BREAST tumors; PERFUSION
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 1982, Vol 50, Issue 2, p232
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(19820715)50:2<232::AID-CNCR2820500212>3.0.CO;2-9