The ability of regional lymph nodes to take up 99Tcm-labelled antimony sulphide colloid
from the breast tissue was studied in 50 patients with mammary symptoms by gamma …

Highlights•Splenic anomalies can be divided into anomalies in number or in
location.•Anomalies in number include accessory spleen, polysplenia or …

The cells of the reticuloendothelial system, which are mainly localized in the liver, spleen,
and bone marrow, are known to be capable of eliminating col bid particulate matter from the …

The size of the spleen has been determined in control subjects, in patients with
polycythemia vera (PV) and in other forms of polycythemia. With 99mTc sulphur colloid and …

99mTc has been described previously. It consists of adding pertechnetate in small volume to
separated erythrocytes followed by reduction with stannous chloride in acid-citrate-dextrose …

In a retrospective study, technetium 99m sulfur colloid scintigraphy was used to evaluate
reticuloendothelial system function in 61 dogs with single congenital and 40 dogs with …

BRAIN SCANNING As pertechnetate (99mTc04-), technetium has an initial distribution in the
body quite similar to iodide (5, 6), and has been used widely for brain scanн ning. Like …

Subject: N28530*-Life Sciences-Medicine-Radiodiagnosis; CONFIGURATION; DIAGNOSIS;
MAN; METASTABLE STATES; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPLENOMEGALY; TECHNETIUM 99; …

Clinically significant splenomegaly is frequently not apparent upon routine physical and
roentographic examinations. In addition, it may be difficult to. differentiate an enlarged …

Spleen scanning is a valuable procedure for estimating the size, configuration, and location
of splenic tissue and for detecting space-occupying lesions within the spleen. Two functions …