Journal article
Demonstration of Pleural Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak by In-111 DTPA Radionuclide Myelogram
Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.17(9), pp.754-755
09/1992
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199209000-00021
PMID: 1395358
Abstract
Subarachnoid pleural fistula is an uncommon complication of elective thoracotomy. Four weeks after left upper lobectomy with Tl-T3 hemilaminectomy for lung adenocarcinoma, a 47-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for drainage from an unhealed postero-superior portion of the thoracotomy scar. Negative CT results made cerebrospinal fluid leak seem unlikely, and she underwent wound debridement and flap closure. In-1 11 DTPA radionuclide myelography was performed to study the acute onset of a large left pleural effusion and persistent wound drainage that occurred after wound closure. The accumulation of radiopharmaceutical in the left portion of the hemithorax revealed a large cerebrospinal fluid leak.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Demonstration of Pleural Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak by In-111 DTPA Radionuclide Myelogram
- Creators
- ANNE LARSON - From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WashingtonMICHAEL GRAHAM
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.17(9), pp.754-755
- Publisher
- Lippincott-Raven Publishers
- DOI
- 10.1097/00003072-199209000-00021
- PMID
- 1395358
- ISSN
- 0363-9762
- eISSN
- 1536-0229
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/1992
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984047703502771
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