PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Provost, Karine
AU  - Charest, Mathieu
TI  - Detection of intra-thoracic bleed post-wedge biopsy of pulmonary angiosarcoma by SPECT/CT Tc99m-red blood cell scintigraphy
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.116.174235
DP  - 2016 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - jnmt.116.174235
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/29/jnmt.116.174235.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/29/jnmt.116.174235.full
AB  - A 52 year-old male presenting with dyspnea and massive right pleural effusion was diagnosed with pleural angiosarcoma following wedge biopsies of pulmonary lesions. Patient was investigated for post-operative bleed with CT angiography, which failed to identify the bleeding site. Technetium-99m labelled red blood cell (Tc99m-RBC) scintigraphy with SPECT/CT of the chest was performed, and the bleeding site was rapidly localized. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature of intra-thoracic bleeding localisation with SPECT/CT Tc99m-red blood cell scintigraphy.