Journal article
Potential False-Positive Meckel's Scan Caused by Umbilical Ornamentation
Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.45(9), pp.735-737
09/2020
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003211
PMID: 32701810
Abstract
An 18-year-old woman presented to the emergency department for bloody stools. A CT scan of the abdomen ruled out intussusception. Meckel's scan was ordered to rule for Meckel's diverticulum before upper endoscopy and colonoscopy. After proper pretreatment with H2 blocker, Tc-pertechnetate Meckel's scan was performed. Dynamic planar imaging revealed a focus of gradual increase in uptake in midabdomen suggestive of Meckel's diverticulum. A SPECT/CT was done to localize the focus of uptake. Surprisingly, the focus of uptake localized to the periumbilical region on SPECT/CT images. The cause of uptake could be due to local inflammation from umbilical ornamentation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Potential False-Positive Meckel's Scan Caused by Umbilical Ornamentation
- Creators
- Ravishankar Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa - University of IowaYusuf Menda
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical nuclear medicine, Vol.45(9), pp.735-737
- DOI
- 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003211
- PMID
- 32701810
- ISSN
- 0363-9762
- eISSN
- 1536-0229
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2020
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984312978802771
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