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.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ventura County Medical Center, California.
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Spieth
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Seder
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Stauffer
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James
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Ali
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Odom
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Kimura
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