Mycotic Aneurysm in Thoracic Aorta Detected by Gallium-67 Scan: A Case Report
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Received 7/5/2002; revised 8/7/2002; accepted 8/19/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Chung-Huei Hsu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 252 Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei 110, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: (886)2-27395748, Fax: (886)2-27395749, E-mail: [email protected] Gallium-67 (Ga) citrate has been used for detecting infection and inflammation ever since its discovery in 1971. At the sites of inflammation, it is taken by leukocytes and bacterial siderophores. It has an affinity to lactoferrin which is released from degranulated neutrophils. To our knowledge, mycotic aneurym detected by Ga scan has rarely been reported. We report an interesting case of infected aneurysm of thoracic aorta detected by Ga citrate scan but was indeterminate on the MRI study.
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