A gallium scan is a type of imaging test used in medicine to diagnose infections, inflammation, and certain cancers. They are commonly done when you have a fever that your doctor cannot find a ...

A gallium scan (Figure 3) was performed to narrow the differential diagnosis. The scan demonstrates markedly increased uptake in the right paratracheal (red arrow) and in both hilar (white arrows ...

You have an injection of a radioactive tracer, which can show up on a scan. Radioactive scans include: octreotide scans (or Octreoscans) – these are also called somatostatin receptor scintigraphy ...