title: Cholescintigraphic demonstration of transient and functional common bile duct obstruction in a patient with acute pancreatitis.
abstract: Cholescintigraphy has proven useful in diagnosis of acute and chronic cholecystitis and evaluation of common bile duct obstruction. Common bile duct obstruction may be due to mechanical obstruction such as impact stone in the common duct or functional obstruction due to sepsis with intra-hepatic cholestasis or acute viral hepatitis. We present a cholescintigram of a patient with acute pancreatitis showing complete common bile duct obstruction.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Medicine Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marsano
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000814:Aniline Compounds; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003137:Common Bile Duct Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D042882:Gallstones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005998:Glycine; D006801:Humans; D007098:Imino Acids; D008297:Male; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D000814:Aniline Compounds; D007098:Imino Acids; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; C034837:technetium Tc 99m mebrofenin; D005998:Glycine