Liver scanning in cancer patients with short-interval autopsy correlation.

1 March 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology

Vol. 138 (3) , 671-673
https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.138.3.7465845

Abstract

The correlation between radionuclide liver scan interpretation and autopsy findings in 94 patients is presented. All patients had a known primary malignancy and the postmortem examinations were peformed within 28 days of the scan. In 81% of the cases, the scans were correctly interpreted. There was a 15% rate of false-positive and a 21% rate of false-negative interpretations. Metastatic deposits < 2 cm in diameter were the most frequent source of false-negative scans.