Preoperative diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum with 99mTc-pertechnetate.
99mTc-pertechnetate scintigraphy of the digestive tract was performed on 4 children with intestinal bleeding. Two of them showed a focal uptake in the right lower abdominal quadrant and a diagnosis of bleeding Meckel's diverticulum was confirmed by surgery. This procedure being easy to perform, non-invasive and remunerative, should be systematically applied in paediatric intestinal bleeding.
D002648:Child; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008467:Meckel Diverticulum / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods; D013667:Technetium
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