After incidentally observing a patient in whom abnormal uptake of gallium-67 citrate appeared to be explained by treatment with phenytoin, we have conducted a prospective study. Of sixteen persons with a seizure disorder treated with phenytoin, five (31%) had abnormal uptake of radiogallium either in the mediastinum, pulmonary hilum or both. Of nineteen historical control patients only one had such abnormal uptake. Phenytoin may thus cause the false-positive uptake of radiogallium in lymph nodes; this finding may also prove to have nosological importance in identifying patients at particular risk of the side-effects of this drug.
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