Liver-spleen visualization by renal imaging agent glucoheptonate.
A case is presented illustrating one or more vicarious routes of excretion in other abdominal organs after injection of 99mtechnetium-labeled glucoheptonate for renal imaging. The patient had chronic renal disease, but mechanism of the vicarious excretion is obscure.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013154:Spleen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013400:Sugar Acids; D013667:Technetium
D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D013400:Sugar Acids; D013667:Technetium; C100014:technetium Tc 99m gluceptate