Contribution of cholescintigraphy to the early diagnosis of acute acalculous cholecystitis in intensive-care-unit patients

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1317-1325

  Prévôt, Nathalie ^a   Mariat, Géraldine ^b   Mahul, Philippe ^b   Granjon, Denise ^a   Cuilleron, Muriel ^b   Tiffet, Olivier ^b   De Filipis, Jean Pierre ^b   Jospé, Richard ^b   Auboyer, Christian ^b   Dubois, Francis ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute acalculous cholecystitis; Cholescintigraphy; Critically ill patients; Intensive care unit patients; Morphine augmented cholescintigraphy

Indexed keywords

MEBROFENIN TC 99M; MORPHINE;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHOLECYSTITIS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032830641     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050589     Document Type: Article

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