Gallium citrate Ga 67 scintigraphic detection of chronic osteomyelitis in children with leukemia
J. H. Miller and L. J. Ettinger
Chronic osteomyelitis producing unexplained fevers without localizing
symptomatology may present difficulty in detection and differentiation in
patients with leukemia. Gallium citrate Ga 67 scintigraphy offers a method
of detection and localization of both the osseous and extraosseous
manifestations of such a process. Once identified, further evaluation by
conventional radiographic or sectional imaging techniques may further
define the process. We describe three patients with leukemia and
unexplained fever in whom occult chronic osteomyelitis was diagnosed by
67Ga scintigraphy, which offers an ideal screening procedure and should be
utilized in this clinical setting.
