title: [Liver scintigraphy as a diagnostic adjuvant to ultrasonic examination in cases of hepatic focal processes].
abstract: The object of this work was to investigate whether the decline in employing hepatic scintigraphy reflects the lack of significance attached to this method in investigation of focal disease of the liver. A retrospective study was performed on 693 patients in whom hepatic ultrasound examination was performed during the year 1986. Seventy-eight of these patients were submitted to supplementary hepatic scintigraphy. Hepatic scintigraphy provided supplementary information in 10% (70/693) of all ultrasound examinations of the liver. Hepatic scintigraphy is therefore recommended as a supplementary examination to ultrasound examination in cases of focal disease of the liver when the latter has yielded ambiguous information or cannot be performed for technical reasons.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Poulsen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Winkler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Leverskintigrafi som diagnostisk adjuvans til ultralydundersøgelse ved fokale processer i leveren.