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My dad 94 had a puss like fluid discharge from his left toe dr ordered a gallium test on both feet why would he order this type of test ? thanks?
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Gallium collects at sites of infection. Your doctor is checking to see if the source of the draining pus is a deep infection underneath, such as osteomyelitis (bone infection). At your dad's age, something like that is quite likely. (Both the right and left feet probably are being scanned in order to have a comparison of the involved side with the presumably normal results on the right.)
Answered 12/26/2021
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