Congenital syphilitic hepatitis: a radionuclide study.
A two-month-old girl with congenital syphilitic hepatitis had bizarre liver scintigraphic features showing diminished hepatic uptake of radiocolloid with accentuated pulmonary and bone marrow accumulation. These features were reversible following penicillin therapy and to our knowledge are previously undescribed manifestations of this multisystemic disease.
D005260:Female; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013590:Syphilis, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013667:Technetium
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