1. Pseudoabnormal liver scans secondary to residual barium in the bowel
- Author
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E Q Seymour, J Edwards, and S E Puckette
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False positive finding ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Liver Diseases ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Contrast Media ,Barium ,Liver Scan ,General Medicine ,Scintigraphy ,Intestines ,Radiography ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,chemistry ,Medicine ,Abdomen ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Barium Sulfate ,business ,Nuclear medicine ,Radionuclide Imaging - Abstract
1. Residual barium in the bowel, when superimposed over the liver, can produce localized areas of decreased uptake on a scan and thereby a false positive finding. This was detected clinically and confirmed by experimental means.2. A scout roentgenogram of the abdomen is recommended immediately prior to the scanning of abdominal organs.
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- 1969