Journal article
A Rare Portosystemic Shunt Detected by MRI and Diagnosed by Dynamic Liver Scintigraphy With Tc-99m Phytate
Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.19(4), pp.321-324
04/1994
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199404000-00009
PMID: 8004864
Abstract
Although various types of portosystemic shunts with portal hypertension have been widely reported, a collateral circulation near the pancreas head is rare. The authors report a case of a rare portosystemic shunt surrounding the pancreatic head, which was diagnosed by dynamic liver scintigraphy using Ikomaʼs scintigraphic criteria for the presence of portosystemic shunts. According to these criteria, abnormal accumulation of radioactivity at various abdominal sites (not identified on static images after the dynamic study) on 6 or more continuous frames of 5-second intervals (i.e., for 30 seconds or more after the arterial phase) indicates the presence of a portosystemic shunt. If liver scintigraphy is performed on a patient with portal hypertension, the dynamic study is valuable in the detection and diagnosis of a portosystemic shunt.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Rare Portosystemic Shunt Detected by MRI and Diagnosed by Dynamic Liver Scintigraphy With Tc-99m Phytate
- Creators
- YOSHIMASA IMANISHI - From the Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University Tohyoko Hospital, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken, Japan †From the Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University Tohyoko Hospital, Kawasaki, Kanagawa-ken, JapanMINAKO HAYAKAWATAKASHI ITOHHIROSHI MITSUHASHIMASAKO MASUOKAHIROTOSHI SUZUKIKAZUMASA MIZUTANIOSAMI KAWAZOEMITSUHIRO FUJIKAWASHIGEKI MOMOSE
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.19(4), pp.321-324
- Publisher
- Lippincott-Raven Publishers
- DOI
- 10.1097/00003072-199404000-00009
- PMID
- 8004864
- ISSN
- 0363-9762
- eISSN
- 1536-0229
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1994
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984020988702771
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