Malinowska Ewa, Doboszyńska Anna, Śliwińska Anna, Buscombe John R, Kulesza Grzegorz, Moczulska Beata, Ćwikła Jarosław B
Department of Nuclera Medicine, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Al. Dzieci Polskich 20, 04-730 Warsaw, Poland.
Nucl Med Rev Cent East Eur. 2018;21(1):59-65. doi: 10.5603/NMR.a2018.0007. Epub 2018 Jan 10.
Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown aetiology characterised by the formation of noncaseating granulomas in various organs and tissues. The various imaging modalities that are useful in the investigation of lesions, staging and establishing indications for treatment include: conventional radiography, CT, MRI, and scintigraphy with ⁶⁷Ga, ²⁰¹Tl, 99mTc sestamibi, and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) as well as ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT. This paper discusses the most commonly used technique of the scintigraphic, gallium (⁶⁷Ga) citrate) and its role in the evaluation and monitoring of patients with sarcoidosis.
