ABSTRACT
Green dye optical density curves were compared with first pass radionuclide angiograms in the assessment of pulmonary transit times. Cytostatics and radiation-induced alterations of the lung were investigated in 18 children after tumour-therapy by means of lung perfusion scintigraphy. patients received epidiaphragmatical radiation and cytostatics. In 6 children a deterioration of lung-perfusion was registered. Lung-scintigraphy is a method for testing pulmonary perfusion in diagnosis and therapy control in childhood malignancies. The results of this study indicate that prophylactic provisions against pulmonary damage during oncologic therapy are necessary. Gallium citrate accumulatiion is reported associated with a case of pulmonary embolism with effusion.
