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Gallium Scanning in Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonitis of Children with AIDS

Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Division of Allergy-Immunology, Schneider Children's Hospital
Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Robert G. Schiff, MD, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11042.

ABSTRACT

Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis (LIP) is a frequent pulmonary complication in the child with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We report the gallium scan findings in two children with AIDS and LIP. Gallium scintigraphy in both children demonstrated increased radionuclide concentration throughout the lungs, a pattern indistinguishable scintigraphically from that of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). This should alert nuclear medicine practitioners and referring physicians to another cause of diffusely increased gallium uptake in the lungs of patients with AIDS.

FOOTNOTES

^* Present address: Division of Immunology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

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