Predicting splenic abnormality in Hodgkin disease using volume response to epinephrine administration
Journal Article
·
· Radiology; (United States)
The change in relative splenic volume following epinephrine administration was used to determine splenic abnormality noninvasively. Selective splenic imaging was accomplished with /sup 99m/Tc-labeled heat-treated red blood cells, an LFOV gamma camera, a 30 degrees bilateral rotating slant hole collimator, and bilateral slant hole tomographic software. Relative splenic volumes were plotted over time, and correlated with clinical and histologic data. Eight patients with Hodgkin disease and other lymphomas were examined. Volume response to epinephrine appears to be significantly less in abnormal spleens, and may serve to identify patients with unequivocally normal spleens prior to treatment.
- Research Organization:
- Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX
- OSTI ID:
- 6783583
- Journal Information:
- Radiology; (United States), Vol. 143:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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SPLEEN
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DIAGNOSTIC USES
ADRENALINE
ERYTHROCYTES
ISOMERIC NUCLEI
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
PATIENTS
VOLUME
ADRENAL HORMONES
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BLOOD
BLOOD CELLS
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
CARDIOTONICS
CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
DRUGS
HORMONES
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LYMPHOMAS
MATERIALS
NEOPLASMS
NEUROREGULATORS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
STEROID HORMONES
SYMPATHOMIMETICS
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USES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
550901 - Pathology- Tracer Techniques
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
HODGKINS DISEASE
PATHOLOGY
SPLEEN
SCINTISCANNING
TECHNETIUM 99
DIAGNOSTIC USES
ADRENALINE
ERYTHROCYTES
ISOMERIC NUCLEI
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
PATIENTS
VOLUME
ADRENAL HORMONES
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BLOOD
BLOOD CELLS
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
CARDIOTONICS
CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
DRUGS
HORMONES
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LYMPHOMAS
MATERIALS
NEOPLASMS
NEUROREGULATORS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
STEROID HORMONES
SYMPATHOMIMETICS
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
USES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
550901 - Pathology- Tracer Techniques