Portosystemic collateral circulation: Demonstrated by Tc-99m-RBC SPECT/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 958-959

  Hsieh, Hung Jen ^a,b   Lue, Kun Han ^a   Kao, Chih Hao K ^a,b   Hsu, Yung Hsiang ^a   Liu, Ming Chien ^c   Kao, Pan Fu ^a,d,e  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c MENNONITE CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Paraumbilical vein; Portosystemic collateral circulation; RBC scan; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ACCUMULATION; FECES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; PELVIS; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; PORTAL SYSTEM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74249112072     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181bed007     Document Type: Article

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