PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Karine Provost
AU  - Mathieu Charest
TI  - Detection of Intrathoracic Bleeding by <sup>99m</sup>Tc-Labeled Red Blood Cell SPECT/CT After Wedge Biopsy of Pulmonary Angiosarcoma
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.116.174235
DP  - 2016 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 205--206
VI  - 44
IP  - 3
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/44/3/205.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/44/3/205.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2016 Sep 01; 44
AB  - A 52-y-old man presenting with dyspnea and a massive effusion in the right pleural cavity underwent wedge biopsies of pulmonary lesions found on thoracic CT, leading to a diagnosis of pleural angiosarcoma. Bleeding developed postoperatively and was investigated using pulmonary CT angiography, which failed to identify a site of active bleeding. 99mTc-labeled red blood cell (RBC) SPECT/CT of the chest was performed, and the site was rapidly located. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature of localization of intrathoracic bleeding using 99mTc-RBC SPECT/CT.