False-Positive Results With the Radioactive Phosphorus Test
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 95 (12) , 2190-2192
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1977.04450120096011
Abstract
• A chorioretinal granuloma that contained acid-fast bacilli and a choriodal nevus that consisted of benign nevus cells yielded false-positive radioactive phosphorus tests. The β emission exceeded that of the control areas by more than 100% in each case. The granuloma had Infiltrated the sclera, permitting inflammatory tissue to be in closer proximity to the counting probe than was the normal choroid. The reason for the increased metabolic activity of the nevus cells remains unexplained. (Arch Ophthalmol 95:2190-2192, 1977)This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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