Late "rim sign"--a variant of an old sign.
Classically, the "rim sign" has been described throughout the hepatobiliary scan. The authors present a case of a late rim sign visualized at 25 minutes postinjection that proved to be acute upon chronic acalculous cholecystitis without gangrene.
Spieth
M E
ME
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ventura County Medical Center, California.
Seder
J S
JS
Stauffer
J C
JC
James
R E
RE
Ali
F
F
Odom
J A
JA
Kimura
R L
RL
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