Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy in Liver Transplant Patients: The "Blind End Sign" and Its Differentiation from Bile Leak

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 638-642

  Young, Steven A ^a   Sfakianakis, George N ^a   Pyrsopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Nishida, Seigo ^a  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile leak; Choledochocholedochostomy; Hepatobiliary scintigraphy; Liver transplant; Roux en Y hepaticojejunostomy

Indexed keywords

MEBROFENIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHILD; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTIGRAPHY; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 1442309448     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200308000-00003     Document Type: Article

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