Encyclopedia: Gallium Scan
A gallium scan or gallium 67 scan is a type of nuclear medicine study that uses a radioactive tracer to obtain images of a specific type of tissue, or disease state of tissue. Gallium salts like gallium citrate and gallium nitrate are used. The form of salt is not important, since it is the freely dissolved gallium ion Ga 3 which is active. For these applications, the radioactive isotope 67Ga...
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i have to go for a NM Gallium scan can anybody tell what its for...
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Asked by daisy - 15 months ago
My 6yrs. old son has an infection in his body that is causing him a...
You didn;t say where you are located. I would say talk to a Children's Hospital. That condition is called "Fever of Unknown Origin" until you know what is causing it. http://www.answers.com/topic/fever-of-unknown-origin?cat=health http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8414762 http://www.springerlink.com/content/k1k5790xxj0774ql/ I really...
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PREP FOR GALLIUM SCAN
Hi I was just wondering if anyone has had to do the Gallium scan? They prep you with something call in solution. It's been almost seven years since my last Gallium scan, and I ...
Feb 19, 2007
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Starting to get impatient now...
of testing (2 more MRIs, 23 vials of blood taken, gallium scan, holter monitor, echocardiagram, contrast Hi I got diagnosed with MS last November. However, upon the results of a second MRI I had in...
Oct 05, 2007
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No diagnosis, many tests after 10 months
. It came back and said I have reactive lymphoid hyperplasia. I have had a Gallium Scan as well as CT scans of my neck, abdoman, and pelvis with/without contrast which were negative. I have had the usual
Jun 26, 2007
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