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Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging
Patient with a history of overt gastrointestinal bleeding, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, polycythemia vera, and choledocojejunostomy was hospitalized because of hematemesis and melena. An area of Technetium-99m labeled red blood cells accumulation at the splenic flexure similar to an overt bleedi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4746851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26917904 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.172370 |
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author | Aktas, Gul Ege Demir, Selin Soyluoglu Genchellac, Hakan Sarikaya, Ali |
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description | Patient with a history of overt gastrointestinal bleeding, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, polycythemia vera, and choledocojejunostomy was hospitalized because of hematemesis and melena. An area of Technetium-99m labeled red blood cells accumulation at the splenic flexure similar to an overt bleeding area, was observed on gastrointestinal bleeding scintigraphy (GIBS). In case of underlying malignancy, abdominal computed tomography was performed and demonstrated the infarction area placed laterally in spleen, appearing as a cold region on sctintigraphic image, separating the inferomedial and upper part of splenic uptake. Splenic variants and pathologies can complicate interpretation of GIBS. |
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spelling | pubmed-47468512016-02-25 Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging Aktas, Gul Ege Demir, Selin Soyluoglu Genchellac, Hakan Sarikaya, Ali Indian J Nucl Med Interesting Images Patient with a history of overt gastrointestinal bleeding, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, polycythemia vera, and choledocojejunostomy was hospitalized because of hematemesis and melena. An area of Technetium-99m labeled red blood cells accumulation at the splenic flexure similar to an overt bleeding area, was observed on gastrointestinal bleeding scintigraphy (GIBS). In case of underlying malignancy, abdominal computed tomography was performed and demonstrated the infarction area placed laterally in spleen, appearing as a cold region on sctintigraphic image, separating the inferomedial and upper part of splenic uptake. Splenic variants and pathologies can complicate interpretation of GIBS. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4746851/ /pubmed/26917904 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.172370 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Interesting Images Aktas, Gul Ege Demir, Selin Soyluoglu Genchellac, Hakan Sarikaya, Ali Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
title | Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
title_full | Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
title_fullStr | Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
title_full_unstemmed | Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
title_short | Splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
title_sort | splenic infarction as a pitfall on labeled red blood cell imaging |
topic | Interesting Images |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4746851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26917904 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.172370 |
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