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Increased Lung Uptake on Technetium-99m-Sulfur Colloid Liver-Spleen Scans in Patients with Hepatic Venoocclusive Disease Following Bone Marrow Transplantation

Arnold F. Jacobson^*, Michael A. Marks and William D. Kaplan

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Correspondence: For reprints contact: William D. Kaplan, MD, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115.

ABSTRACT

Three patients who developed signs and symptoms of liver dysfunction following autologous bone marrow transplantation showed varying degrees of increased lung uptake on technetium-99m-sulfur colloid(⁹⁹Tc-SC) liver-spleen-scans and were subsequently demonstrated to have hepatic venoocclusive disease (VOD) at autopsy. Although increased lung uptake of labeled colloid has been noted in solid organ and bone marrow transplant patients, an association between this phenomenon and VOD has not been previously reported

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^* Present Address: VA Medical Center, Seattle, WA.

Present Address: Baylor University, Houston, TX.