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Gallium-67 scintigraphy in borderline lepromatous leprosy
1Nuclear Medicine Department, Royal Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia.
Australasian Radiology
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
A middle aged woman with a pyrexia of unknown origin was shown to have borderline lepromatous leprosy. Early gallium-67 scintigraphy demonstrated increased uptake in the subcutaneous tissues of the face and thighs. As a result of these findings skin biopsy was obtained from the right thigh which gave a diagnosis of borderline lepromatous leprosy. The authors have been unable to find other reports of gallium-67 scintigraphy in leprosy but the pattern of gallium-67 distribution should suggest the diagnosis.