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Intravenous blood pool activity masquerading as gastrointestinal hemorrhage

Radiolabeled red blood cell (RBC) scintigraphy is a common study to detect and localize gastrointestinal hemorrhage. There are many potential entities that may result in false-positive RBC scintigraphy. Here, we present a case of enlarged feeding vessels of omental carcinomatosis which scintigraphic...

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Autores principales: Fleming, Scott A., Keenan, Andrew M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7067126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32190025
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_28_19
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description Radiolabeled red blood cell (RBC) scintigraphy is a common study to detect and localize gastrointestinal hemorrhage. There are many potential entities that may result in false-positive RBC scintigraphy. Here, we present a case of enlarged feeding vessels of omental carcinomatosis which scintigraphically might be mistaken as intraluminal bowel activity and thus active hemorrhage. This case highlights the importance of reviewing correlative imaging in patients with a large neoplastic burden.
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spelling pubmed-70671262020-03-18 Intravenous blood pool activity masquerading as gastrointestinal hemorrhage Fleming, Scott A. Keenan, Andrew M. World J Nucl Med Case Report Radiolabeled red blood cell (RBC) scintigraphy is a common study to detect and localize gastrointestinal hemorrhage. There are many potential entities that may result in false-positive RBC scintigraphy. Here, we present a case of enlarged feeding vessels of omental carcinomatosis which scintigraphically might be mistaken as intraluminal bowel activity and thus active hemorrhage. This case highlights the importance of reviewing correlative imaging in patients with a large neoplastic burden. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7067126/ /pubmed/32190025 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_28_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 World Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Intravenous blood pool activity masquerading as gastrointestinal hemorrhage
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title_short Intravenous blood pool activity masquerading as gastrointestinal hemorrhage
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7067126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32190025
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