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In a patient with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, a rare familial sterol storage disease, increased uptake of gallium-67 was observed in the tendon xanthomas. This is considered to have resulted from the tumour-like proliferation of histiocytic cells in the xanthomas. Abnormalities in the white matter of the cerebellum and the brain stem observed by X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were not detected by67Ga scintigraphy, possibly due to the small size of the CNS lesions.
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Okada, J., Oonishi, H., Tamada, H. et al. Gallium uptake in cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis. Eur J Nucl Med 22, 1069–1072 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00808420
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