ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Sunanta Chiewvit

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Tc-99m Stannous Colloid-Labeled Leucocyte Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Brain Abscess

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Siriraj Hospital Gazette, Vol. 52, No 10, October 2000. Page 655-661

รายละเอียด / Details:

Tc-99m Stannous Colloid-Labeled Leucocyte Scintigraphy was used to investigate brain abscesses in patients with underlying arteriovenous malformation or other brain abnormalities Tc-99m Stannous Colloid-Labeled Leukocytes are radiolabeled neutrophils and monocytes. The radiolabeled colloid is phagocytosed by the white cells. Six patients with underlying arteriovenous malformation AVM post embolisation with clinical dianosis of brain abscess were studied. The 3 patients with positive Tc-99m Stannous Colloid-Labeled Leukocyte scans were diagnosed as a cerebral abscess in all cases. One patient who had a negative Tc-99m Stannous Colloid-Labeled Leukocytescan did not have a brain abscess. Another with a negative scan had a pathologic diagnosis of chronic inflammation and foreign body reaction. The third with a negative scan was studies after treatment with antibiotic and debridement. In Summary Tc-99m Stannous Colloid-Labeled Leukocyte scintigraphy is useful in conjungtion with CT scanning in investigating patients with brain abscess who have other underlying brain abnornality or who have ab early brain abcess, or in the follow up of patients who have already received treatment in order to evaluate infection is still present and it is appropriate treatment.

Keywords: brain abnormality, brain abscess, psychiatry

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2000

Address: Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Code: 00004107

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-152X

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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