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7455080

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-3-17
pubmed:abstractText
Fifty-one patients underwent both radionuclide and ultrasound studies of the hepatobiliary system. Eleven patients had large bile duct obstruction, six had intrahepatic diffuse small duct obstruction, and 37 had no obstruction. In all 11 patients with large duct obstruction, the radionuclide images were abnormal, but in nine of these studies the level of obstruction could not be determined. Ultrasound was abnormal in nine studies (with correct identification of level), normal in one, and technically inadequate in one, ultrasound scans were also abnormal in six patients without obstruction. In small duct obstruction, the radionuclide scan was abnormal in all six, but in five patients it could not differentiate small from large duct obstruction. In all six patients, ultrasound showed no large duct obstruction, thus allowing identification of the level of obstruction in patients whose radionuclide scans were equivocal. A cost analysis indicated that in suspected large duct obstruction, the best strategy is ultrasound first, followed by radionuclide imaging in all positive or technically inadequate ultrasound studies. In suspected small duct obstruction, the best strategy is radionuclide scanning first followed by ultrasound in all Tc-99m-diethyl-IDA studies equivocal as to level of obstruction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0033-8419
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
138
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
177-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
Complementary role of Tc-99m-diethyl-IDA and ultrasound in large and small duct biliary tract obstruction.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article