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gallium scan

Known as: gallium scanning, gallium scans 
A procedure to detect areas of the body where cells are dividing rapidly. It is used to locate cancer cells or areas of inflammation. A very small… 
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1994
1994
The gallium scan predicts relapse in patients with Hodgkin's disease treated with combined modality therapy.
The gallium scan (GS) is an important indicator of disease activity in untreated Hodgkin's disease, especially in the upper torso… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Gallium scanning in the management of mediastinal Hodgkin's disease
Gallium‐67 scanning was performed pre‐ and post‐therapy in 25 patients with Hodgkin's disease and a mediastinal mass. At… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Sequential technetium-99m HMDP-gallium-67 citrate imaging for the evaluation of infection in the painful prosthesis.
In order to evaluate the clinical utility of sequential technetium-99m HMDP-gallium-67 scanning in patients with painful… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
The clinical significance of radionuclide bone and gallium scanning in osteomyelitis of the head and neck
Osteomyelitis of the head and neck remains a difficult clinical problem both in diagnosis and treatment evaluation. The purpose… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
High-dose gallium imaging in lymphoma.
1980
1980
Renal lymphoma imaged by ultrasound and gallium-67.
Lymphomatous involvement of the kidneys, usually a secondary process, may be seen as single or multiple sonolucent or weakly… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Differential bone-scanning in the evaluation of a painful total joint replacement.
In an attempt to differentiate between loose and infected total joint replacements, seventy-nine patients were studied with both… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Reliability of gallium scan chest radiography compared to mediastinoscopy for evaluating mediastinal spread in lung cancer.
Mediastinoscopy has become a major staging procedure for characterizing mediastinal and hilar tumor spread in lung cancer. As a… 
1975
1975
Gallium scanning as a screening test for inflammatory lesions.
Of the 67-Ga scans obtained in 42 patients with fever and suspected inflammatory lesions, 17 were positive. In 9 patients the… 
1975
1975
Gallium-67-citrate scanning for the localization and staging of lymphomas.
One-hundred-eight 67Ga-citrate scans were evaluated in Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas for staging, diagnosis of recurrence… 
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