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The diagnosis of occult inflammatory processes is one of the most challenging tasks in clinical practice. An accurate and speedy diagnosis is important for early and adequate treatment (1–3). To this end, the search has been going on for some time for newer, more reliable methods. 67Ga-citrate scintigraphy has been successfully used, but it has its limitations (4–6). Ultrasonography and computed tomography have proved their clinical usefulness in the detection and location of abdominal and retroperitoneal abscesses. However, both methods do have specific limitations as well (7–13).
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Rövekamp, M.H., Brummelkamp, W.H., Van Der Schoot, J.B., Reinders Folmer, S.C.C., Van Royen, E.A. (1984). Diagnosis of Intra Abdominal Inflammatory Processes with 111In-Labelled Leucocytes. In: Hardeman, M.R., Najean, Y. (eds) Blood cells in nuclear medicine, part I. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6027-5_28
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