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Early ⁶⁷Ga Scintigraphy for the Localization of Abdominal Abscesses

Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California

Correspondence: For reprints contact: G. Bruce Hopkins, Div. of Nuclear Medicine, Dept. of Pathology, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, Calif. 92037.

ABSTRACT

Sixty patients suspected of having abdominal abscesses were evaluated by early and delayed ⁶⁷Ga scintigraphy. The ⁶⁷Ga scintigraphs obtained 6 hr after injection correctly localized 18 of 20 abdominal or retroperitoneal abscesses. An additional 13 patients with abnormal scintigraphs had clinically established infections. In no instance was an abscess or inflammatory focus present on delayed scintigraphs that was not evident on the 6-hr study. Two false-positive and two false-negative studies were recorded. Early ⁶⁷Ga scintigraphy is warranted in patients with suspected abdominal abscesses.

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