Gallium citrate Ga 67

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-013819",
  "term": "Gallium citrate Ga 67",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The citrate salt of the radioisotope gallium Ga 67. Although the mechanism is unknown, gallium Ga 67 concentrates in lysosomes and is bound to a soluble intracellular protein in certain viable primary and metastatic tumors and focal sites of inflammation, allowing scintigraphic localization. Ga-67 scintigraphy (GS) cannot differentiate between tumor and acute inflammation.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/gallium-citrate-ga-67/"
}