IN-111 CHLORIDE IMAGING IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ABSCESSES - CONCISE COMMUNICATION

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 24  (12) , 1114-1118
Abstract
Patients (258) with clinically suspected inflammatory processes were studied. Seventy-two images were categorized as true positive; 211 as true negative. There were 9 false-positive studies, 4 of which were due to activity in beds of excised organs. There were 6 false-negative studies, 4 of which were due to walled-off abscesses found at surgery or biopsy. Sensitivity was 92%, specificity 95% and accuracy 94%. 111In chloride imaging provides a reliable way to locate inflammatory processes and overcomes the disadvantages of healing surgical wound with 67Ga, and the false-positive images due to cystic fibrosis and other respiratory diseases, or accessory spleens as seen with 111In-labeled white cells.