Incidental gallbladder visualization on nonhepatobiliary nuclear medicine studies: Case series and review of the literature

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 915-919

  Niederkohr, Ryan D ^a   McDougall, I Ross ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary; Excretion; Gallbladder; Hepatobiliary; Radiopharmaceutical

Indexed keywords

MERTIATIDE TC 99M; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; TECHNETIUM 99M; TRACER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY EXCRETION; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG UPTAKE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PANCREATIC DISEASES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSTATIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MERTIATIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 36348963618     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31815976e0     Document Type: Article

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