Abdominal and pelvic imaging as part of liver-spleen scintigraphy for the detection of mesenteric bleeding in trauma. A case report.
Liver--spleen scintigraphy in patients who have incurred blunt abdominal trauma is accepted as a useful diagnostic tool. Abdominal and pelvic imaging to detect extrahepatic or extrasplenic sites of hemorrhage should be a routine part of liver--spleen imaging in the evaluation of blunt abdominal injury. A patient with mesenteric bleeding and a normal liver and spleen detected by liver--spleen scintigraphy is reported.
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D013671:Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid