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Chest, Vol 72, 777-779, Copyright © 1977 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Iatrogenic false-positive findings on cardiac scans

MM McDaniel and ME Morton

Two patients subjected to cardiopulmonary resuscitation with chest massage and direct-current cardioversion had positive activity on myocardial scintiscans using radioactive 99mtechnetium pyrophosphate. Possible explanations are offered, and recent reports of false-positive findings on scans due to organic disease, as well as iatrogenic causes, are discussed briefly.




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