Value of 67Gallium scintigraphy in the diagnosis of localized renal and perirenal inflammation.

Eight patients with renal or perirenal abscesses were evaluated by 67gallium scintigraphy. The correlation of localized 67gallium uptake to the inflammatory lesion was proved by tissue diagnoses in 7 patients and by response to treatment and repeated studies in the remaining case. 67Gallium scanning was found to be an accurate, non-invastive technique. It should be applied early in diagnosing inflammatory lesions of the retroperitoneum and for examining fever of unknown origin.