Scintigraphic gallbladder visualization with gangrenous acalculous cholecystitis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 701-703

  Ananian, Christopher ^a,b   Dunn, Andrew ^a   Mansourian, Vazrik ^a   Caride, Vicente J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

Author keywords

CCK; Cholecystitis; False negative; Gangrenous; Hepatobiliary

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; DIGLYCINE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG INDICATION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CONTRACTION; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GANGRENE; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GANGRENE; HUMANS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DISOFENIN;

EID: 33750360358     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000242700.10483.08     Document Type: Article

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