111In-leukocyte imaging: intrasplenic abscesses.

A 52-year-old female patient was routinely referred for an indium-111 white-cell scan due to elevated white blood cell count after mitral-valve replacement. A scan with technetium-99m tin colloid was also performed, and the resulting subtraction image showed two areas of white-cell accumulation within the spleen which were presumed to be abscesses. This was confirmed at postmortem examination.