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Intracardiac Malignant Lymphoma Detected by Gallium-67 Citrate and Thallium-201 Chloride

Department of Radiology, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Tsunehiko Nishimura, MD, Dept. of Radiology, National Cardiovascular Center, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan.

ABSTRACT

An abnormal uptake of ⁶⁷Ga and ^201,TI in the right atrium was observed initially in a 77-yr-old man with superior vena cava syndrome. The pathological diagnosis of the surgically resected specimen was non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma in the right atrium. Thallium-201 is used as an imaging agent for malignant tumors. However, previous reports suggested that ²⁰¹TI scintigraphy may not be a useful method to detect cardiac involvement in patients with malignant neoplasms. In this case both ²⁰¹TI and ⁶⁷Ga accumulation was observed in the intracardiac tumor by scintigraphy.

FOOTNOTES

^* Present address: Dept. of Radiology, Osaka University Medical School, 1-1-50, Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka 553, Japan.

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