Among the various image studies, bone scan, including Tc99m scan and gallium scan, is considered as a useful tool for initial diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the temporal bone.
Gallium scans with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) demonstrated intense gallium uptake in left temporal bone (Figure 2(d)).
Gallium scans with SPECT demonstrated intense gallium uptake in left temporal bone (Figure 4(d)).
Talking about death felt more real and more comfortable than talking about
gallium scans and chemotherapy.
MRI does serve as a valuable guide to the interpretation of technetium and
gallium scans, and thus it is extremely useful in the treatment of skull base osteomyelitis.
Magnetic resonance imaging is useful in diagnosing skeletal tuberculosis because it provides the clearest evidence of deformation and compression of the spinal cord.[5] Nuclear medicine scans reveal increased activity in infected areas such as joints or the lumbar spine, visible on both bone and
gallium scans.[8]
While some authors have reported that
gallium scans can be used to follow disease activity, others have noted normal scans in the setting of recurrent disease.
Gallium scans. Draisma et al compared the utility of gallium and MRI scans for detecting mediastinal lymphoma in 189 patients.
Additionally, they reported that all four of the treatment failures in their study were evident on gallium scans.
The value of gallium scans in helping guide post-chemotherapy decisions was further documented by Stroszczynski et al in their study of 28 patients who were imaged with both gallium and CT.