Scintigraphic diagnosis of polysplenia in the adult

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 161-163

  Derbekyan, Vilma A ^a   Pham, Christine ^b   Emond, Carl ^a   Novales Diaz, Javier A ^a   Lisbona, Robert ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interruption of Inferior Vena Cava; Polysplenia; Tc 99m Heat Denatured RBC Scan

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ACCESSORY SPLEEN; AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; NEEDLE BIOPSY; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SCINTIGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ABNORMALITIES; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; SPLEEN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032912986     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199903000-00004     Document Type: Article

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