Abdominal Varices Mimicking an Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage During Technetium-99m Red Blood Cell Scintigraphy
| Autor: | Bill F. Byrd, Gottlieb L. Turnbull, Albert J. Moreno, David E. Berger |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Gastrointestinal bleeding Erythrocytes Cirrhosis Esophageal and Gastric Varices Scintigraphy Diagnosis Differential Liver Cirrhosis Alcoholic medicine Humans False Positive Reactions Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Esophagus Radionuclide Imaging medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Hepatobiliary disease Technetium General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Acute Disease Abdomen Radiology medicine.symptom Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage business Varices Caput medusae |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 10:248-251 |
| ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00003072-198504000-00004 |
| Popis: | Abdominal varices consisting of a caput medusae and dilated mesenteric veins resulted in pooling of Tc-99m tagged red blood cells (RBC) within these dilated vessels in a 57-year-old man with severe Laennec's cirrhosis. The atypical radiotracer localization within the abdomen mimicked an acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Clinical suspicion and careful evaluation of scintigraphic gastrointestinal bleeding studies will avoid false-positive interpretations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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