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Failure of Gallium-67 Scintigraphy to Identify Reliably Noninfectious Interstitial Nephritis: Concise Communication

William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Gordon D. Graham, MD. Nuclear Medicine Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307.

ABSTRACT

Gallium-67 scintigraphy has been reported to be useful in the diagnosis of noninfectious interstitial nephritis. We studied 12 patients with Ga-67 citrate that were diagnosed as having noninfectious interstitial nephritis on renal biopsy. Only seven of the twelve patients with interstitial nephritis on biopsy were scan-positive. Gallium-67 scintigraphy may not reliably identify noninfectious interstitial nephritis.