Radionuclide imaging of hepatic and biliary disease.
This article will focus on common clinical applications of scintigraphy in focal hepatic lesions, acute cholecystitis, biliary dyskinesia, biliary obstruction, postoperative liver and biliary tract, and neonatal cholestasis. The utility of positron emission tomography will also be addressed.
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Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Box A-034, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, USA. Eugene.Lin@UCHSC.edu
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D001657:Biliary Dyskinesia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods