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Scintigraphic detection of post-pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistulae

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A total of 20 ventilation studies [16 with xenon-133 and four with technetium-99m diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA)] were performed in 11 patients with suspected post-pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistulae. The findings on the ventilation scan were correlated with bronchoscopy, taken as the gold standard for purposes of comparison. The sensitivity and specificity for 133Xe scans were 83% and 100% respectively, while the sensitivity for 99mTc-DTPA aerosol studies was poor at 0%. Special techniques for optimal visualization of the fistulae are enumerated.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, , , , , , US

    Shanker Raja, Donald R. Neumann, Gopal B. Saha, Shashi Khandekar, William J. MacIntyre & Raymundo T. Go

  2. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, , , , , , US

    Thomas W. Rice

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Received 28 August and in revised form 20 November 1998

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Raja, S., Rice, T., Neumann, D. et al. Scintigraphic detection of post-pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistulae. Eur J Nucl Med 26, 215–219 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002590050379

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