Lung scans and malignancy
Creators
- 1. Centre Chirurgical du Val d'Or, 92 - Saint-Cloud (France)
Description
An experience of pulmonary isotope scanning carried out with mercury 197 labelled mercury chloride and acetate, cobalt 57-labelled bleomycin, and Cu67 and Cu64 labelled copper citrate was presented. The scans were carried out with various isotopes supplied by the French Atomic Energy Authority, and gave comparable results, which may be summarised as follows: increased uptake in more than 90% of cases of carcinoma, absent uptake in all cases of benign tumour, frequent increased uptake in acute or advanced inflammatory lesions, absence of uptake, very commonly, in tuberculoma and chronic lesions with scar formation. Radio-isotope scan using Cu67 labelled copper citrate permitted discrimination of malignant tumours (increased fixation which showed up best at the 24th hour) from inflammatory lesions (increased fixation which was reduced on the 24th hour). The positive or negative character of the fixation in a given lesions remains the same, whatever the isotope used in our experience
Abstract (French)
On a presente une experience de scintigraphies pulmonaires faites avec le bichlorure et l'acetate de mercure 197, la bleomycine marquee au cobalt 57, le citrate de cuivre 67 et de cuivre 64. Les scintigraphies faites avec ces differents isotopes utilises au C.E.A. ont donne des resultats comparables, qu'on peut resumer ainsi: hyperfixation dans plus de 90% des cas de cancer; absence de fixation dans tous les cas de tumeurs benignes; hyperfixation frequente dans les lesions inflammatoires aigues ou evolutives; absence de fixation tres frequente dans les tuberculomes et lesions chroniques ou cicatricielles. La scintigraphie au citrate de cuivre 67 sans entraineur permet, de plus, de discriminer les tumeurs malignes (hyperfixation qui diminue a la 24e heure). Le caractere positif ou negatif d'une fixation, dans une lesion donnee, reste le meme, quel que soit l'isotope employe, dans notre experienceAdditional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Scintigraphies de fixation et malignite
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Masson.
- Imprint Place
- Paris
- Imprint Title
- Lungs and radio-isotopes
- Imprint Pagination
- p. 227-242.
- Journal Volume
- 2
- Series
- Collection de la Societe Francaise de la Tuberculose et des Maladies Respiratoires.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 7260280
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMAS; COBALT 57; COPPER 64; COPPER 67; LUNGS; MERCURY 197; SCINTISCANNING; UPTAKE
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIMITOTIC DRUGS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; COBALT ISOTOPES; COPPER ISOTOPES; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; DRUGS; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MEDICINE; MERCURY ISOTOPES; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; RADIOISOTOPES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Optional Information
- Notes
- Imprint:v. 3(suppl.1) of the Revue Francaise des Maladies Respiratoires.;Les radio-isotopes en pneumologie.