title: Planar and SPECT Tc-99m red blood cell imaging in hepatic cavernous hemangiomas and other hepatic lesions.
abstract: The utility of Tc-99m RBC imaging in the diagnosis of hepatic cavernous hemangiomas has been established. Of the 25 patients with various focal hepatic lesions evaluated, 16 were diagnosed as having hemangiomas: eight proven by surgery, two proven by angiography, and six proven by maintaining a stable clinical course ranging from 6 to 12 months with normal follow-up liver function tests. Although fourteen of these were detected by planar imaging, two were detected by SPECT only. Two patients with large hemangiomas had false-negative scans, whereas the remaining seven patients had other liver lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Intenzo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madsen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013667:Technetium; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D013667:Technetium