title: [Total liver failure in the scintigram of alcoholic liver cirrhosis].
abstract: Case reports are given of 3 female patients suffering from advanced, hypertrophic alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver with portal hypertension. The livers of these patients were not demonstrable by scintigraphy. The patients died a few months afterwards from liver failure. This syndrome - failure of the liver to show up in scintigraphy - may have diagnostic and prognostic implications; it may be caused by deficient blood circulation and by reduced phagocytic capacity of the kupfer cell system.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
vernacular_title: Totalausfall der Leber im Szintigramm bei alkoholischer Leberzirrhose.