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Gallium-67 citrate accumulation in a mycotic popliteal artery aneurysm
Y Leclerc1, J Verreault, G Bisson
1Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 31-year-old man with bacterial endocarditis developed a mycotic popliteal aneurysm which presented clinically like an acute osteomyelitis. Bone and Ga-67 scanning played a major role in disclosing this unsuspected lesion. Various isotopic techniques proposed for the detection of mycotic aneurysm are reviewed. The potential usefulness of Ga-67 imaging in patients at risk of developing such lesions is discussed.