title: Use of SPECT/CT to confirm inconclusive gastric emptying scintigraphy results.
abstract: A 70-year-old man with cramping, abdominal pain, and diarrhea for 5 months after revision of a Nissen fundoplication underwent further evaluation with solid gastric emptying scintigraphy. On sequential planar images, we were uncertain if activity was present within the stomach or within loops of small bowel. SPECT/CT performed at 4 hours was used to localize the tracer, confirming its presence within the stomach.
authors.affiliation: From the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Henrichon
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seltzer
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siegel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018662:Fundoplication / Q000009:adverse effects; D005746:Gastric Emptying; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D013270:Stomach / Q000601:surgery*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed